THE TATTOO IN MODERN ROMANIAN SOCIETY
THE TATTOO IN MODERN ROMANIAN SOCIETY

Summary/Abstract: The oldest documents testifying tattoo date from the Middle Ages. This fashion was taken after Oriental practices. The theme was studied by Dr. Nicolae Minovici, in this 1898 licence paper. According to him, tattoo fashion penetrated both lower and social strata, but it seems few of the studied subjects were Romanian – most of then being foreigners (Greeks, Macedonians, German, Bulgarians, Russians, Hungarians a.s.o. By the other hand, this article is dedicated to Francisc J. Rainer and his methodes to anthropological researchers. Francisc Rainer was born in 1874, MD Faculty of Medicine in 1903; Prof. of Anatomy and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine Jassy (1913-1920) and same in Bucharest (1920-1940). He was interested in anatomy, embryology and anthropology of the Romanians research under way on the population of certain villages of the Carpathian mountains, on craniology of the Romanians, on the anthropology of Romanian students and on blood groups; field trips in the Carpathians, 1927 (Drăguş), 1928 (Nereju) and 1932 (Fundul Moldovei) near by Dimitrie Gusti.

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