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Tattoo Traditions of Native North America
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Ancient and Contemporary Expressions of Identity
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Artikel-Nr:
9789491394096
Veröffentl:
2014
Erscheinungsdatum:
01.12.2014
Seiten:
256
Autor:
Lars Krutak
Gewicht:
1579 g
Format:
287x243x27 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Dr. Lars Krutak is a cultural anthropologist, photographer, and writer who has traveled the Indigenous world for over fifteen years documenting the traditions of tribal body modification. He works for the National Museum of Natural History. He is the author of The Tattooing Arts of Tribal Women, Kalinga Tattoo: Ancient and Modern Expressions of the Tribal, and Magical Tattoos and Scarification: Spiritual Skin. Wisdom. Healing. Shamanic Power. Protection.
For thousands of years astonishingly rich and diverse forms of tattooing have been produced by the Indigenous peoples of North America. Long neglected by anthropologists and art historians, tattooing was a time-honoured traditional practice that expressed the patterns of tribal social organisation and religion, while also channelling worlds inhabited by deities, spirits, and the ancestors. This book explores the many facets of indelible Indigenous body marking across every cultural region of North America. As the first book on the subject, it breaks new ground on one of the least-known mediums of Amerindian expressive culture that nearly disappeared from view in the twentieth century, until it was reborn in recent decades.