John A. Rush, Ph.D., N.D., is a Professor of Anthropology at Sierra College, Rocklin, California, teaching Physical Anthropology and Magic, Witchcraft, and Religion. Dr. Rush's publications include Witchcraft and Sorcery- An Anthropological Perspective of the Occult, The Way We Communicate, Clinical Anthropology- An Application of Anthropological Concepts within Clinical Settings, and Stress and Emotional Health- Applications of Clinical Anthropology. He is also a Naturopathic Doctor in private practice.
"Tattooings are not only ornaments... they are not only emblems of
nobility and symbols of rank in the social hierarchy; they are also
messages fraught with spiritual and moral significance... not only
to imprint a drawing onto the flesh but also to stamp onto the mind
all the traditions and philosophy of the group."
- Claude Levi-Strauss
"And this tattooing has been the work of a departed prophet and
seer of his island, who, by those hieroglyphic marks, had written
out on his body a complete theory of the heavens and the Earth, and
a mystical treatise on the art of attaining truth; so that Queequeg
in his own proper person was a riddle to unfold; a wondrous work in
one volume; but those mysteries not even himself could read, though
his own live heart beat against them."
- Herman Melville
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