Lars Krutak - Tattoo Traditions of Asia

​The Indigenous peoples of Asia have created some of the world’s oldest and most distinctive tattoos, but their many contributions to tattoo 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.
​Based on tattoo anthropologist Lars Krutak’s twenty years of fieldwork including interviewing hundreds of Indigenous tattoo bearers and contemporary tattoo practitioners as well as painstaking research in obscure archives throughout the region and elsewhere, this richly illustrated survey breaks 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.​