Cartographies of Skin and Soil: Tattoos, Resistance, 1500s Maps of Philippines

October 15, 5:30pm - 6:30pm
Mānoa Campus, Hamilton Library, Asia Reading Room, 4th Floor

Cartographies of Skin and Soil: Tattoos, Resistance, and 1500s Colonial Maps of the Philippines Workshop and Exhibit

Discover how Filipinos have long marked memory and resisted erasure through traditional tattoos, archival materials, and rare 1500s Philippine maps – stories preserved in the Philippine Rare Collection at Hamilton Library. Events will feature traditional tattoos documented in the Boxer Codex, the Philippine Revolutionary Papers, 16th-18th century maps, and the Martial Law Papers.


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Event Sponsor
Hamilton Library, Mānoa Campus

More Information
Elena Clariza, (808) 956-2313, mclariza@hawaii.edu,

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