ZNAMEN - THE SIGN: Croatian Traditional Tattoo
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- Author: Haluga Vesna
- Publisher: Dominović
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- Condition: New book
- Code: 72746
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ZNAMEN - THE SIGN: Croatian Traditional Tattoo
Haluga Vesna
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Vesna Haluga: ZNAMEN - DAS ZEICHEN: kroatische traditionelle Tätowierung
The book contains a gift, a temporary tattoo
This booklet tells about the unique phenomenon of traditional tattooing of Catholic women in Bosnia and Herzegovina, especially in central Bosnia, where it is an ethnological rarity, unique in the whole world. The traditional tattooing of Catholic women had the greatest significance during the Ottoman rule, between 1463 and 1878, when the tattooing of the cross on women's arms as a symbol of Christianity had primarily a protective function (preventing them from being taken into slavery, harem, rape). That small mark on the skin was so important back then that it determined people's destinies. The custom of tattooing the hands of Catholic women remained even after the departure of the Ottomans, and then the more anthropological, protective meaning for us already takes on a ritual-customary quality, i.e. it becomes a sign of the identity of women from South BiH, mostly around Rama, so women continued to be tattooed. The custom was current until the end of the 1960s, when it slowly died out. The author of the book, Ph.D. Vesna Haluga is strongly advocating for the inclusion of the traditional tattoo of Bosnia and Herzegovina on the UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage of humanity, which would be a great contribution to the preservation, popularization and recognition of this rare ethnological specific.
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- Author: Haluga Vesna
- Publisher: Dominović
- Year of publication:2023
- Place of publication:Zagreb
- Pages:88
- Dimensions:11.5x17 cm
- Script:Latin script
- Condition:New book
- Binding:Softcover
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