The Cultural Heritage of Tattooing: A Brief History

dc.contributor.authorKrutak, Lars F.
dc.date.accessioned2015-04-20T15:15:42Z
dc.date.available2015-04-20T15:15:42Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractFor millennia, peoples around the world have tattooed human skin to communicate various ontological, psychosocial, and sociocultural concepts encompassing beauty, cultural identity, status and position, medicine, and supernatural protection. As a system of knowledge transmission, tattooing has been and continues to be a visual language of the skin whereby culture is inscribed, experienced, and preserved in a myriad of specific ways. If we are to fully comprehend the meanings that tattoos have carried across human history and into the present, then it would be useful to explore some of the ways tattoos, as instruments that transmit culture, have been deployed cross-culturally through time. © 2015 S. Karger AG, Basel.
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dc.identifier1662-2944
dc.identifier.citationKrutak, Lars F. 2015. "<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25833618?dopt=Abstract,http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25833618">The Cultural Heritage of Tattooing: A Brief History</a>." <em>Current problems in dermatology</em>, 48 1–5. <a href="https://doi.org/10.1159/000369174">https://doi.org/10.1159/000369174</a>.
dc.identifier.issn1662-2944
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10088/25463
dc.relation.ispartofCurrent problems in dermatology 48
dc.titleThe Cultural Heritage of Tattooing: A Brief History
dc.typearticle
sro.description.unitNH-Anthropology
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sro.identifier.doi10.1159/000369174
sro.identifier.itemID135607
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sro.identifier.urlhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25833618?dopt=Abstract,http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25833618

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