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Written on the Body: The Tattoo in European and American History
Jane Caplan, Editor
This book has spectacular scholarship on tattooing and body art. It includes Charle's MacQuarrie's essay on body art among the ancient Britons, including a comparison of ancient Roman and other eyewitness accounts of woading and tattooing among the insular Celts, and the discovery of blue dyed skin on Lindow Man.

Wombs and Alien Spirits: Women, Men, and the Zar Cult in Northern Sudan
Janice Boddy
This is in-depth scholarship on Sudanese Zar, women and henna!

Marriage ceremonies in Morocco
Edward Alexander Westermarck
You can still get this original research on Moroccan henna traditions prior to 1900 from antiquarian booksellers. This is the most complete documentation of traditional Moroccan Night of the Henna anywhere.

Veil : Modesty, Privacy and Resistance (Dress, Body, Culture)
Fadwa El Guindi
Whether veiling perplexes you or you think you understand it ... El Guindi examines the history, ethnicity, function and practice of veiling more thoroughly than anyone before.

The Victim and its Masks : An Essay on Sacrifice and Masquerade in the Maghreb
Abdellah Hammoudi, Paula Wissing (Translator)
This book details the traditions of `Id that are vanishing with the modernizatinof Islam. When you read this book, you'll develop an entirely new understanding of the role of henna in `Id.

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