Indigenous Tattoo Traditions (eBook)

Humanity through Skin and Ink

Lars Krutak (Autor)

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2025
574 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-27117-0 (ISBN)

Infos

A beautifully illustrated history of Indigenous tattooing practices around the worldTattooing within Indigenous communities is a time-honored practice that binds the tattoo recipient to a deeply felt collective history. More than mere decoration, tattoos embody cultural values, ancestral ties, and spiritual beliefs. Indigenous Tattoo Traditions captures ancient tribal tattooing practices and their contemporary resurgence, highlighting a beautiful aspect of humanity's shared cultural heritage.Transporting readers through history, Lars Krutak explores the art and customs of tattooing across numerous ancestral lands, including Africa, the Middle East, the Americas, the Arctic, Oceania, Japan, Southeast Asia, and Siberia. He illustrates how tattoos function as a form of writing that defines and structures community life, performing as rites of passage, symbols of rank, and signs of marital or religious devotion, among other facets of culture. We are introduced to the heavily tattooed Li women of China's Hainan Island with their elaborate facial and body tattoos, the bold indelible markings of Papua New Guinea's Indigenous peoples, and innovative cultural tattoo practitioners who are rebuilding a skin-marking legacy for future generations to come.With numerous images published for the first time and an illuminating foreword by cultural historian Sean Mallon, Indigenous Tattoo Traditions opens a window onto one of the world's most vibrant yet misunderstood mediums of human expression.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.5.2025
• Vorwort: Sean Mallon
• Zusatzinfo: 400 color illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Afterlife • ancestors • ancestral practices • ancient art • ancient tattooing • Ancient Tattooing Practices • Anthropology • Art History • Bodies of Subversion • Body Art • body studies • cultural heritage • Cultural History of Tattoos • Cultural Identity • Cultural Studies • Deities • Global Tattoo Practices • Indigenous Art • Indigenous Body Art • indigenous studies • Indigenous tattoos • Inked Design • margot mifflin • material culture studies. • medicinal tattoos • Mummies • Native American • Native American Tattoos • Ontology • Papua New Guinea Tattoos • Personhood • Religious Studies • sean mallon, ebastien galliot • Siberian Tattoo Traditions • Spirits • Tatau • tattoo anthropology • tattoo artists • tattoo designs • Tattooed Communities • tattoo history • tattooing • Tattooists • Tattoo Practices in Africa • Tattoos • Tattoos and Spirituality • Tattoos in Southeast Asia • Tattoos of China • Tattoos of Japan • Tattoos of Siberia • Tattoos of South America • Tattoos of the South Seas • tattoo symbols • Tattoo Traditions • tattoo traditions of asia • Tribal Tattoos
• ISBN-10: 0-691-27117-8 / 0691271178
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-27117-0 / 9780691271170