Fair enough, but there exist a collection of people who actually like the "tribal" style of tattoo art that explicitly isn't using any of the traditional designs from various historic tattoo cultures. The word refers to a modern, um— what's a polite word?— fusion of various techniques common to many traditional designs of multiple tribes. It is art, and it looks like the traditional stuff.
I don't think I'm annoyed with the neologism of contracting the noun phrase into its modifying adjective. I do wish there was a better word for this style of tattoo art. I guess I'm willing to accept "tribal" because I can imagine worse.
NB: I have hated the phrase "primitive tribe" since having a very nice Norwegian anthropologist who specializes in Polynesian cultures explain to me that "primitive" is a deprecated word in that context.
p.s. Moko is the Marquesan word for the little green gecko/lizard critters that run all over the place there.
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Date: 2005-11-02 01:32 am (UTC)I don't think I'm annoyed with the neologism of contracting the noun phrase into its modifying adjective. I do wish there was a better word for this style of tattoo art. I guess I'm willing to accept "tribal" because I can imagine worse.
NB: I have hated the phrase "primitive tribe" since having a very nice Norwegian anthropologist who specializes in Polynesian cultures explain to me that "primitive" is a deprecated word in that context.
p.s. Moko is the Marquesan word for the little green gecko/lizard critters that run all over the place there.