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Dion Kaszas & Gordon Sparks launch Truly Tribal: Contemporary Indigenous Tattooing

Date:
Time:
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Venue:
Halifax Central Library
Location:
5440 Spring Garden Road, Halifax. More info
Link:
https://halifax.bibliocommons.com/events/69ebb4101e64afd01e6b6b82
Calendar:
Community event

Join us for a conversation between Dion Kaszas and Gordon Sparks as they celebrate the launch of Truly Tribal: Contemporary Indigenous Tattooing and discuss the importance of reclaiming their specific Indigenous tattooing and skin marking practices.

There are many books written by academic non-Indigenous people on the subject of historical Indigenous tattooing traditions. Truly Tribal: Contemporary Indigenous Tattooing is the first book to allow Indigenous tattooing practitioners to speak for themselves about their contemporary practices. Challenging the anthropologist gaze that relegates Indigenous tattooing practices to a historical past, Nlaka’pamux ancestral skin marker Dion Kaszas, Mi’kmaw mask-maker and tattoo artist Gordon Sparks, and their 16 fellow practitioners assert that Indigenous tattooing traditions are of contemporary importance for Indigenous nations around the world today.

Books will be available for purchase on site.

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