Thank you Gloria.
I do understand your point that comes with a subtle alert. I am fairly familiar with the colonial baggage that comes with the term "tribe". I used it deliberately to be more inclusive at this initial stage of my search since most of the earlier documentation and scholarly reports seems to use it. I do not intend to stick with it as I develop the work I intend my request for. I do like "identification marks" as you suggested but this is somewhat restrictive since these marks go further than merely identifying I believe.
I do appreciate your time and useful advise.
Gbolahan Gbadamosi
On Sat, 1 Sep 2018 at 10:16, Emeagwali, Gloria (History) <emeagwali@ccsu.edu> wrote:
--I would be careful to use the right terminology. I tend to say "identification marks" instead of tribal marks but I am still searching for a better term.
It is a form of surgery so facial surgery may be a candidate. Facial scarification
may be another possibility although when I looked up the term I realized that it is
often associated with artwork these days.
Colonial anthropologists often used terms to devalue rather than to uplift.
Professor Gloria Emeagwali
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