Author

Publication

2014 - University of Washington Press

Language

English

Word Count

64,000 words, Guess

Page Count

256 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-109491394096
  • ISBN-139789491394096
  • OCLC Control Number884921887
  • Better World Books9789491394096
  • Open LibraryOL28786561M

Classifications

  • LCCE98.T2K78 2014
  • LCCE98.T2 K78 2014
  • LCCGT2346.N6 K78 2014

Description

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 organization and religion, while also channelling worlds inhabited by deities, spirits, and the ancestors.0This 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.0.

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