The Cultural Heritage of Tattooing | Lars Krutak | TEDxYYC

For nearly twenty years, anthropologist and photographer Lars Krutak has been on a mission to document the vanishing world of Indigenous tattooing culture. His research explores these ancient human traditions, revealing how this language of the skin exposed individual desires and fears as well as cultural values and ancestral ties that were written the body. Lars Krutak is a tattoo anthropologist, author and television host who has spent the last two decades traveling the world, learning about unique tatto