ETHNOGRAPHY ON FIELD OF TATTOO IN THE CITY OF CASCAVEL - PR

Abstract

The research developed it is an ethnographic description of the field of tattooing in the city of Cascavel / Paraná, in order to bring light to the representations activated in the social relations within the field. The methodology was ethnography along with literature review. It was found that in the mid-80s the studios received a health regulation that allowed to become legal before the state. The main results obtained from the research show that tattoo artists were seen as professionals as a result of a series of regulations in relation to the studios and the entry of new materials and more sophisticated methods in Brazil. Hygiene is also adopted in furtherance of professional representation. Chancelados State, tattooists design professionals in their practice asepsis and not necessary in this illegal. However, the hygienic condition of professional competes with self-representing artist, generating reactions appreciation of artistic expression at the expense of non-professional hygienic. This field is organized in a dual way, such as: professional and non-professional artists and amateurs, legal and illegal. The valuation technique, hygiene and asepsis, and especially the artistic character of labor are the mainstays of this duality in the field of tattoo artists.