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Aaron Deter-wolf (editor) and
Carol Diaz-Granados (editor)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Univ of Texas Pr
Publication date
November 1, 2014
Pages
311
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781477302118
ISBN-10
1477302115
Dimensions
1 by 6 by 9 in.
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$30.00
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university press
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Tattooing in the Marquesas | Bodies of Subversion | Tattoo Traditions of Native North America | Decorated Skin | The Tattoo History Source Book
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: For thousands of years, Native Americans throughout the Eastern Woodlands and Great Plains used the physical act and visual language of tattooing to construct and reinforce the identity of individuals and their place within society and the cosmos. The act of tattooing served as a rite of passage and supplication, while the composition and use of ancestral tattoo bundles was intimately related to group identity. The resulting symbols and imagery inscribed on the body held important social, civil, military, and ritual connotations within Native American society. Yet despite the cultural importance that tattooing held for prehistoric and early historic Native Americans, modern scholars have only recently begun to consider the implications of ancient Native American tattooing and assign tattooed symbols the same significance as imagery inscribed on pottery, shell, copper, and stone.
Drawing with Great Needles is the first book-length scholarly examination into the antiquity, meaning, and significance of Native American tattooing in the Eastern Woodlands and Great Plains. The contributors use a variety of approaches, including ethnohistorical and ethnographic accounts, ancient art, evidence of tattooing in the archaeological record, historic portraiture, tattoo tools and toolkits, gender roles, and the meanings that specific tattoos held for Dhegiha Sioux and other Native speakers, to examine Native American tattoo traditions. Their findings add an important new dimension to our understanding of ancient and early historic Native American society in the Eastern Woodlands and Great Plains.
Chapter List:
Introduction
Carol Diaz-Granados and Aaron Deter-Wolf
1. Native American Tattooing in the Protohistoric Southeast
Antoinette B. Wallace
2. Needle in a Haystack: Examining the Archaeological Evidence for Prehistoric Tattooing
Aaron Deter-Wolf
3. Swift Creek Paddle Designs as Tattoos: Ethnographic Insights on Prehistoric Body Decoration and Material Culture
Benjamin A. Steere
4. Tattoos, Totem Marks, and War Clubs: Projecting Power through Visual Symbolism in Northern Woodlands Culture
Lars Krutak
5. The Art of Enchantment: Corporeal Marking and Tattooing Bundles of the Great Plains
Lars Krutak
6. Identifying the Face of the Sacred: Tattooing the Images of Gods and Heroes in the Art of the Mississippian Period
F. Kent Reilly III
7. Dhegihan Tattoos: Markings That Consecrate, Empower, and Designate LineageJames R. Duncan
8. Snaring Life from the Stars and the Sun: Mississippian Tattooing and the Enduring Cycle of Life and Death
David H. Dye
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Hardcover
With Aaron Deter-wolf (other contributor) |
from Univ of Texas Pr (November 15, 2013)
9780292749122 | details & prices | 293 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.00 in. | 1.40 lbs | List price $60.00
Paperback
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With Aaron Deter-wolf (other contributor) |
from Univ of Texas Pr (November 1, 2014)
9781477302118 | details & prices | 311 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.00 in. | List price $30.00
About: For thousands of years, Native Americans throughout the Eastern Woodlands and Great Plains used the physical act and visual language of tattooing to construct and reinforce the identity of individuals and their place within society and the cosmos.
About: For thousands of years, Native Americans throughout the Eastern Woodlands and Great Plains used the physical act and visual language of tattooing to construct and reinforce the identity of individuals and their place within society and the cosmos.
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