I am excited to announce my new book Indigenous Tattoo Traditions: Humanity through Skin and Ink will be published in May 2025 by the Princeton University Press! For more details, please visit the Princeton University Press webpage for this project. More details to come on launch events and the 2025 promo road tour!
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Lars Krutak is a research associate at the Museum of International Folk Art (Santa Fe, New Mexico) and author of Tattoo Traditions of Asia, Tattoo Traditions of Native North America: Ancient and Contemporary Expressions of Identity and Spiritual Skin: Magical Tattoos and Scarification, among other books focusing on Indigenous tattoo culture and practice. He is also the senior editor for Ancient Ink: The Archaeology of Tattooing, the first book to explore the archaeological history of tattooing.