Week 4: Reasons for Tattooing 
Check-In

• Summarize readings with pairs
  
• Discuss reflections
  

Culture Talk 
Mini-Lecture 

• Modern tattooing is a result of indigenous practices of tattooing being stripped of their cultural significance and spirituality, leaving only artistic and personal expression. 
  
• PrePhilippine tattooing traditions emphasize the following reasons for getting tattoos: 
  
  • Identification purposes
    
  • Role in society 
    
  • Honoring ancestors and lineage
    
  • Medicinal 
    
  • Protection 
    
  • Guidance 
    
  • Oral histories 
    
  • Voyaging 
    
  • Nature 
    

Activity

• Students will analyze common meanings for tattoos, sparking discussion on reasoning for tattoos in prePhilippine culture. Signs with labeled meanings will be posted around the classroom, and tattooed students will move to whichever sign most suits their reasoning for getting tattoos. Untattooed students will move to the sign that says “no tattoos.” 
  
• Signs   
  
  • Spiritual 
    
  • Art/Personal Expression 
    
  • Homage 
    
  • Story 
    
  • Cultural
    
  • No tattoos
    

Content Assignment

• Read Tapping Ink, Tattooing Identities by Analyn V. Salvador-Amores (pp.115-203)
  

Reflection Response

• Students will submit 1-2 pages or 5-7 min video response to content assignment