Lars Krutak (PhD) is an American anthropologist, photographer, curator, and writer known for his research about Indigenous tattoo and its cultural background. He hosted and produced the 10-part documentary series Tattoo Hunter on the Discovery Channel and is a Research Associate at the Museum of International Folk Art (Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA).

Krutak is the author of more than 90 articles for scientific journals and popular magazines on the subject of tattooing. His books include (2014) Tattoo Traditions of Native North America, (2012) Magical Tattoos and Scarification, (2010) Kalinga Tattoo focusing on Indigenous tattooing culture in the northern Philippines, and (2007) The Tattooing Arts of Tribal Women. Krutak also served as the senior editor for (2018) Ancient Ink: The Archaeology of Tattooing, the first book

dedicated to the archaeological study of tattooing.

Krutak has conducted tattoo research with 50+ Indigenous societies in 25 countries. His photography has appeared in exhibitions at the Weltkulturen Museum (Frankfurt), Museum of Modern Art (New York City), Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow), Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac (Paris), Royal Ontario Museum (Toronto), among other institutions.

To learn more about Dr. Krutak’s research and publications, please visit his website www.larskrutak.com or academia.edu page.

Here are some links to sources discussed in this episode:

- https://www.larskrutak.com/

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David C. Lane is an assistant professor in the Department of Criminal Justice Sciences at Illinois State University. He holds a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Delaware. His monograph, The Other End of the Needle: Continuity and Change among Tattoo Workers was recently released on Rutgers University Press. His research articles on tattoo work appear in Deviant Behavior and the Sociology Compass. He also has a forthcoming original research chapter in the Handbook of Social Organization titled, ‘Resistance and Resilience among Tattoo Workers’. Broadly, David’s research focuses on tattoo work and culture as a social process, labor and the changes to cultural production in capitalist systems, crime in relation to natural hazards, art theft, and constructionist approaches to social problems. He also serves as the Chair of the Body Art and Images area of the Mid-Atlantic Popular and American Culture Association (https://mapaca.net/).

Currently, he is researching the relationship between acquiring a tattoo in relation to experiences of trauma. For more information about this study, or if you are interested in being a participant go to www.tattoostudyisu.com.

David can be found at [email protected].

Here are some links to sources discussed in this episode:

- David's book, The Other End of the Needle: Continuity and Change among Tattoo Workers: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-other-end-of-the-needle/9781978807471

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From Qeqertarsuaq, Greenland and currently resides in Svendborg, Denmark.

Maya Sialuk is a traditional Inuit tattoo artist, private researcher in Inuit's intangible culture and religion, teacher and lecturer and has over 20 years of experience in the tattoo profession. In 2010, she founded the tattoo and research project Inuit Tattoo Traditions.

Inuit Tattoo Traditions covers the Inuit territories in Greenland, Canada and Alaska

Research and the work towards cultural preservation fill much of Maya Sialuk's everyday life. She is interested in research ethics as well as ethical issues surrounding the use of cultural heritage. Both when it comes to outsiders and cultural members.

As an artist, Maya Sialuk works on the topic of cultural anchoring and ethical use of cultural heritage. She conveys the reflections her research leads to.

In 2021, Maya Sialuk will be exhibiting at the exhibition Verden Er I Dig at Charlottenborg in Copenhagen and and at the Nordic House in Reykjavik. Also she will do numerous public talks on Inuit immaterial culture as well as co authoring on a number of articles on the subject of tattoo history research and the archaeology of body modification.

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Maya Sialuk is from Qeqertarsuaq, Greenland and currently resides in Svendborg, Denmark.

Maya Sialuk is a traditional Inuit tattoo artist, private researcher in Inuit's intangible culture and religion, teacher and lecturer and has over 20 years of experience in the tattoo profession. In 2010, she founded the tattoo and research project Inuit Tattoo Traditions.

Inuit Tattoo Traditions covers the Inuit territories in Greenland, Canada and Alaska.

Research and the work towards cultural preservation fill much of Maya Sialuk's everyday life. She is interested in research ethics as well as ethical issues surrounding the use of cultural heritage. Both when it comes to outsiders and cultural members.

As an artist, Maya Sialuk works on the topic of cultural anchoring and ethical use of cultural heritage. She conveys the reflections her research leads to.

In 2021, Maya Sialuk will be exhibiting at the exhibition Verden Er I Dig at Charlottenborg in Copenhagen and and at the Nordic House in Reykjavik. Also she will do numerous public talks on Inuit immaterial culture as well as co authoring on a number of articles on the subject of tattoo history research and the archaeology of body modification.

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Dr. Beverly Yuen Thompson is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Siena College, in Loudonville, NY. She is the author of Covered in Ink: Tattoos, Women and the Politics of the Body (NYU Press, 2015), as well as many other articles on tattooing, and other subcultures. Her forthcoming book, Digital Nomads Living on the Margins: Remote-Working Laptop Entrepreneurs in the Gig Economy (Emerald Publishing Limited, June 2021), examines the subculture of millennial remote gig workers. She is a reptile enthusiast and currently has a Thai Bamboo Rat Snake.

Here are some links to sources discussed in this episode:

-Beverly Yuen Thompson @snakegrrl on all platforms

-https://snakegrrl.wordpress.com/

-https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNcDqjcVmYZk3mUMqesg_Gg

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Dion Kaszas is an Nlaka’pamux cultural tattoo practitioner and a leader in the revival of Indigenous tattooing in Canada. He has been tattooing professionally since 2009 and started the revival of Nlaka’pamux tattooing in 2012. Dion travels to National and International events, conferences, and tattoo festivals representing Indigenous tattooing in Canada.

Dion's passion for tattooing extends beyond his artistic work into the successful completion of his Masters degree in Indigenous Studies at the University of British Columbia Okanagan. His continued area of research is Indigenous tattooing, focusing keenly on the revival of Indigenous peoples tattooing practices, using Indigenous and Creative research methodologies. Since his graduation Dion has contributed to a variety of publications as author and editor.

His work has been featured in Spiritual Skin: Magical Tattoos and Scarification, Tattoo Traditions of Native North America: Ancient and Contemporary Expressions of Identity, The World Atlas of Tattoo, and highlighted in Newspaper articles from the New Zealand Herald to the CBC. In 2018, he was featured in Skindigenous, a 13-part documentary series produced in association with APTN exploring Indigenous tattooing traditions around the world.

Dion is a recipient of a Long Term Project grant through the Creating, Knowing and Sharing: The Arts and Cultures of First Nations, Inuit and Métis

Peoples component of the Canada Council for the Arts, for his project “Taking Nlaka’pamux Tattooing to the World.”

Dion acknowledges the support of the Canada Council for the Arts.

Here are some links to sources discussed in this episode:

https://www.indigenoustattooing.com

""Tattooing and Face and Body Painting of the Thompson Indians"" by James Teit: https://books.google.com/books/about/Tattooing_and_Face_and_Body_Painting_of.html?id=9nMbwQEACAAJ

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Dr. Matt Lodder is a Senior Lecturer in Art History & American Studies at the University of Essex. His research focuses on using art history as a lens to understand the history of western tattooing from the 17th century onward, specifically in the ""professional era"" which began in the 1880s and continues today. You can find him on Twitter @mattlodder, and learn more about his research here: https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/lodde23007/matt-lodder

Here are some links to sources discussed in this episode:

-Mikak the tattooed woman visits London in 1767: https://www.jstor.org/stable/40513264?seq=1

-Marks of Civilization by Mark Rubin: https://books.google.com/books/about/Marks_of_Civilization.html?id=kZ_pAAAAMAAJ

-Modern Primitives: https://books.google.com/books/about/Marks_of_Civilization.html?id=kZ_pAAAAMAAJ

-Tattooed Bodies by Nikki Sullivan: https://books.google.com/books/about/Tattooed_Bodies.html?id=n7qAAAAAMAAJ

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Dr. Matt Lodder is a Senior Lecturer in Art History & American Studies at the University of Essex. His research focuses on using art history as a lens to understand the history of western tattooing from the 17th century onward, specifically in the "professional era" which began in the 1880s and continues today. You can find him on Twitter @mattlodder, and learn more about his research here: https://www.essex.ac.uk/people/lodde23007/matt-lodder

Here are some links to sources discussed in this episode:

Vanity Fair, 1926, "Modern Fashions in Tattooing" https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/1926/1/modern-fashions-in-tattooing

"Bad Boys and Tough Tattoos" https://books.google.com/books/about/Bad_Boys_and_Tough_Tattoos.html?id=oNMAZhTdQVsC

Sutherland Macdonald: https://mymodernmet.com/sutherland-macdonald-tattoo-history/

Katsushika Hokusai, 19th c. Japanese artist: https://www.katsushikahokusai.org/

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Ben Robitaille is an independent researcher specializing in pre-electric tattooing instruments. He lives in a tiny village in the northern Appalachians with his two kids and absolutely no pets. He studied at the University of Montreal from where he obtained a bachelors degree with a major in Anthropology and a minor in Latin American studies. In the course of his academic training, Ben got sidetracked from a specialization in Mesoamerican studies by a long standing interest in tattooing, which he was given an opportunity to explore further in graduate school under the tutelage of Professor Paul Tolstoy. Ben's thesis ballooned completely out of control and for a variety of reasons he stepped back and became a gardener and eventually the co-owner of an organic vegetable farm, his main occupation to date. The cultural history of tattooing technologies has remained an important hobby for him throughout, and next year he will celebrate 25 years of learning on the subject.

Ben also helps run the very popular @ArchaeologyInk Instagram account with friend and collaborator Aaron Deter-Wolf.

Photo of Ben carrying out a tattooing experiment on pig skin with a reproduction of an Iroquoian bone awl in archaeologist Christian Gates-St.-Pierre's University of Montreal laboratory, which led to the publication "Needles and bodies: A microwear analysis of experimental bone tattooing instruments" (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X17304637).

Contact Benoît Robitaille here: [email protected]

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