episodeThe Chin ban
Burma, the 1960s
about 1,962 – 1,970 · Banned by the Union Revolutionary Council
What it is
Burma's socialist government banned Chin facial tattooing in the 1960s; missionaries had been discouraging it for decades already.
The long version
The practice ended inside a generation. The women who carry it were tattooed as teenagers before the ban and are now in their seventies and eighties, and they are photographed constantly.
Inference — a ban works fastest on a mark that is made once, in youth, by a specialist. Stop the specialists for twenty years and there is nobody left who has done it.
Connected to
- Chin facial tattooing What was banned.
Where each claim comes from
| Field | Tier | Source | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| default | cited | Chin people — Wikipedia (en) | |
| text_th | inference | written in Thai by this project, not machine-translated |
Sources
- Chin people — Wikipedia (en)
- Tattooing in Myanmar — Wikipedia (en)
cited Cited — a named source, linked · harvested Harvested — fetched from an open dataset, with its licence · tradition Tradition — general knowledge of the tradition, hedged · inference Inference — this project's own reasoning from the above · field Field — someone stood there