TY  - BOOK
AU  - Krutak,Lars
TI  - Tattoo Traditions of Asia: Ancient and Contemporary Expressions of Identity 
SN  - 9780824897956
AV  - GT2346.A8 K78 2024
U1  - 391.6/5095 23/eng/20230927
PY  - 2024///]
CY  - Honolulu
PB  - University of Hawaii Press
KW  - Indigenous art
KW  - Asia
KW  - DLC
KW  - Indigenous peoples
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Tattooing
KW  - History
KW  - ART / Body Art & Tattooing
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Asia tattoo
KW  - China tattoo
KW  - Japan tattoo
KW  - Southeast Asia tattoo
KW  - tattoo history
N1  - Frontmatter --; Dedication --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; Note on Terms --; Introduction --; 1. Tattoos of Japan: Many Islands, Many Tales --; 2. Tattoos of Taiwan and Hainan: To Honor the Ancestors --; 3. Tattoos of the Philippines: Defining Marks of Culture --; 4. Tattoos of Indonesia: Spirits, Souls, Taboo, and Tattoo --; 5. Tattoos of Mainland Southeast Asia: Magical Mysteries in Ink --; 6. Magical Mysteries in Ink: Marks for the Afterlife --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780824897956?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780824897956
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780824897956/original
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