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Training Research Assistants

Michaela took our two research assistants, Holly Wood and Grey Caballero, to Cape Fear Tattoo in Wilmington, NC for some ethnographic experience before we head to Seattle/Tacoma for the Northwest Tatau Festival. Holly and Grey are students at University of North Carolina Wilmington. Thanks to Rick and Megan at Cape Fear for hosting our team.

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About This Project

Our team studies cultural impacts on health, specifically those of tattooing on the immune system. We expand on our previous study that suggests tattooing may "inoculate" the immune system. Our research takes place among Polynesian tattooists, who retain some of the oldest and most extensive tattooing practices in the world. We will collect saliva samples from over 100 people receiving tattoos at the Northwest Tatau Festival to examine multiple immunological factors.

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