Between human canvases, taboos, and plastic expressions

Abstract

Anthropology, as a science which specializes in the human being, studies those symbolic elements that shape the human thought from ethnicity. This can be viewed in the local worldviews within the Salvadorean society when making reference to the rituality of tattooing as an artistic expression and a means of social interaction and communication. Such elements are the backbone of this ethnographic approach aided by surveys as part of the quantitative method. The survey was conducted with students from the subject of Philosophy at Universidad Tecnológica de El Salvador (Utec) in order to complement the qualitative analysis, and as a result of the interviews that were conducted with cultural experts. Therefore, the type of study is exploratory, descriptive and non-probabilistic.

Entorno, october 2016, issue 62: 47-55