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Tattoo Traditions of Asia: Ancient and Contemporary Expressions of Identity

Name: Tattoo Traditions of Asia: Ancient and Contemporary Expressions of Identity
Brand: University of Hawaii Press
SKU: 9780824895709
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Contributors:

Lars Krutak

Publisher:

University of Hawaii Press

Binding:

Hardcover

Book Category:

Health & Fitness, Art

Book Subcategory:

Beauty & Grooming, Body Art & Tattooing, Asian

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Release Date:

2024-10-31

ISBN 13:

9780824895709

Weight:

3.7 lbs

Size:

9.80 x 8.20 x 1.40 inches

Pages:

520

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For millennia, tattoos have documented the history of humanity one painful mark at a time. They form a visual language on the skin, expressing an individual's desires and fears as well as cultural values, family ties, and spiritual beliefs on the surfaces of the body. The Indigenous peoples of Asia have created some of the world's oldest and most distinctive tattoos, but their many contributions to body art and practice have been largely overlooked. Tattoo Traditions of Asia is the first single volume dedicated to the anthropological study of an ancient cultural practice and artform that spans many countries and societies, ancestral lands, and contemporary communities across the continent and its islands.

This richly illustrated survey combines the author's twenty years of fieldwork, interviewing hundreds of Indigenous tattoo bearers and contemporary tattoo practitioners, with painstaking research conducted in obscure archives throughout the region and elsewhere to break new ground on one of the least-understood mediums of Indigenous Asian expressive culture--a vital tradition to be celebrated, an inspirational story told in skin and ink.

About the Author
Lars Krutak is a research associate at the Museum of International Folk Art (Santa Fe, New Mexico) and author of Tattoo Traditions of Native North America: Ancient and Contemporary Expressions of Identity and Spiritual Skin: Magical Tattoos and Scarification, among other books on Indigenous tattoo culture and practice.

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