Mon, Nov 04
|Washington
Profs & Pints DC: A World Heritage of Tattooing
Profs and Pints DC presents: “A World Heritage of Tattooing,” with Lars Krutak, DC-based anthropologist, research associate at the Museum of International Folk Art, author or editor of several books on tattooing around the world, and former host of the Discovery Channel's Tattoo Hunter.
Time & Location
Nov 04, 2024, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Washington, 801 E St NW, Washington, DC 20004, USA
About the event
Profs and Pints DC presents: “A World Heritage of Tattooing,” with Lars Krutak, DC-based anthropologist, research associate at the Museum of International Folk Art, author or editor of several books on tattooing around the world, and former host of the Discovery Channel's Tattoo Hunter.
Since time immemorial, astonishingly diverse forms of tattooing have been produced by various cultures of the world. Some employed tattoos for therapeutic or cosmetic purposes, or to mark special life achievements, or to assert social identity. Others marked the body with symbols that were understood to promote fertility, protect the body from malevolent spirits, or carry them safely into the afterlife.
Join world traveler, anthropologist, and photographer Dr. Lars Krutak as he shares his 20-plus year journey to understand how tattoos "make" the people who wear them, part of which he chronicled in his Discovery Channel series as well as Netflix's Explained and the forthcoming feature…