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Tattoo Traditions of Asia: Ancient and Contemporary Expressions of Identity

Tattoo Traditions of Asia: Ancient and Contemporary Expressions of Identity - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Lars KrutakPublish date:2024-10-31Pages:520
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Hawaii PressISBN-13:9780824895709ISBN-10:824895703UPC:9780824895709Book Category:Health & Fitness, ArtBook Subcategory:Beauty & Grooming, Body Art & Tattooing, AsianSize:9.80 x 8.20 x 1.40 inchesWeight:3.7038Product ID:SC3C3P3BG8

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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Hawaii PressISBN-13:9780824895709ISBN-10:824895703UPC:9780824895709Book Category:Health & Fitness, ArtBook Subcategory:Beauty & Grooming, Body Art & Tattooing, AsianSize:9.80 x 8.20 x 1.40 inchesWeight:3.7038Product ID:SC3C3P3BG8
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.
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press

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