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This lavishly illustrated
account of the vanishing art of women's tribal tattooing is the record of tattoo
anthropologist Lars Krutak's ten-year research with indigenous peoples around
the globe. Spanning five continents, The Tattooing Arts of Tribal Women explores
the personal and collective acts of human transformation through the tradition
of indelible marking among indigenous peoples, past and present.
Throughout
history, women have tattooed living skin to beautify, heal, empower, or carry
the body into the afterlife. And as tattoo bearers were participants in shared
pain and recuperation, the skin was the location where identity and experience
met. Tattoo anchored indigenous values on the skin by creating a living canvas
rooted in traditional practice. As ritual, tattooing re-enacted myth: it imitated
the actions of the gods and ancestors who sacrificed their own skins to make them
more lasting and sacred.
With over 250 colour and b&w illustrations, The
Tattooing Arts of Tribal Women not only examines the history and significance
of tattooing through a comparative study of tattoo patterns and techniques, but
also through interviews with the indigenous people who created them. The result
is a comprehensive overview that establishes new ways of seeing and reading the
messages encoded in ancient and more contemporary forms of tattooing through an
exploration of these traditions worldwide.
The author will be appearing
in a forthcoming television series for the Discovery Channel, focusing on indigenous
body modification practices worldwide.
– 288 pages with 260 illustrations,
many in color
Published
by Bennett & Bloom, 2007 | TATTOOING
ARTS OF TRIBAL WOMEN
Contents
Preface
and Acknowledgments
Map of Tattooing Peoples and Areas
Introduction
A
comment on the 'Tribal'
The colonial gaze
The tattooing arts of tribal women
1.
NORTH AFRICA, IRAQ AND THE BALKANS
Berber tattooists and their motifs
Arab
tattooing
Kurdish tattooing
Balkan tattooing
The Vlachs
2. TAIWAN
AND BORNEO
Atayal tattoo artists
Familiar spirits
Paiwan tattoo artists
Dayaks
of Borneo
Spirits, gods, ancestors, and the circle of life
Iban
Orang
Ulu of the Rejang River
Kayan
Kayan priestesses
Sihan and Lahanan
Prelude
of change
3. PAPUA NEW GUINEA AND EASTER ISLAND
Linguistic concepts
of tattooing: the raw and the cooked
Papuan tattoo patterns
Easter Island
The
vanishing Rapa Nui tattoo
Symbolic dimensions of women's tattooing
Men's
tattoo motifs
4. JAPAN, NORTHWEST COAST AND ARCTIC
Ainu tattoos, girdles,
and symbolic embroidery
Ainu crests
Tlingit and Haida of the Northwest Coast
The Arctic: Circumpolar regions
Tattoos and symbolic pigments
Concepts
of tattooing in the Arctic
Women's facial and body tattoos
Medicinal function
of tattoos
Tattooing as a form of acupuncture
Aleut
Nosepins
Ear ornaments
Labrets
Piercing medicine
Transgendered piercings and tattoos
Aleut
adornment
5. SOUTH AMERICA, CALIFORNIA AND THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST
Coastal
Peru
Blood sacrifice in ancient Peru
Of birds, lizards, serpents, and centipedes
The Mundurucú of Amazonia
Of myths and birds
Of birds and men
The
Mundurucú headhunt and trophy heads
The Gran Chaco
Thwarting spirits
and the implications of flowing blood
California and the American Southwest
Tattooed Skin Conclusion: Marks of Transformation
Notes
Literature
Index |
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