Stories on Skin

Terry Baxter has been an archivist for almost 40 years, the last 25 with the Multnomah County (OR) Archives. He helped establish the County Archives in 2001 and continues seeking ways to use it to assist information seekers of all sorts. Baxter is a member of and has served in a variety of leadership positions in Northwest Archivists; Society of American Archivists; Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries and Museums; Archives Leadership Institute; and The Academy of Certified Archivists.Libby Coyner-Tsosie (she/they) has been an archivist for over 15 years, working in academic libraries, government archives, and museum archives. Coyner-Tsosie worked as an archivist at Elon University, where she built a zine collection and taught students about research in primary sources. She is a member of the 2016 cohort of Archives Leadership Institute at Berea College and is proud to have been held in love and community with a group of tremendous archivists and the late bell hooks.

• Foreword by Verne HarrisPrefaceIntroduction1. The Limits of Libraries, Archives, and Museums2. A Brief Exploration of Tattoos: Prehistoric to Present3. My Body is a Repository: Tattoo as an Act of Storytelling4. Tattoos as an Act of Belonging5. What Tattoos Tell Us about Tradition and Appropriation6. Disrupting the Binary: Tattoos, Gender, and Queerness7. Tattoos and Control Systems8. Memorial TattoosConclusionBibliographyIndex

The book is accessible yet theoretically grounded, making it an ideal introduction to non-traditional archives for students and practitioners alike … For archivists seeking to understand how bodies can become sites of record-keeping, Stories on Skin is an indispensable beginning.