{"id":616,"date":"2023-10-10T13:43:33","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T17:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/?p=616"},"modified":"2023-10-10T13:43:33","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T17:43:33","slug":"10-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/2023\/10\/10\/10-11\/","title":{"rendered":"10\/11"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In preparation for this class session, I did research on a national tradition of my choice: Inuit tattooing. I ended up reading seven different articles on the history of Inuit tattooing, and found it all to be very interesting. Lars Krutak\u2019s work was an important resource, and something I might return to \u2013 if relevant \u2013 for my final research project. I loved how woman-focused a lot of the Inuit tattooing traditions were, as well as how intertwined they were with sewing. The idea of skin-stitching is not something I was familiar with before my research; I might try to find a video of it being done, because I am very curious about how far under the skin the needle and thread go. I was also interested by the reasoning behind a lot of Inuit tattooing, which is the belief that every person has multiple souls that live in specific joints throughout the body. I thought it was cool that both human and animal spirits have the power to possess people, hence the tradition of first-kill tattoos. I am happy that I took the time to research current iterations of Inuit tattooing; it showed me that the tradition is not dead, and that people are consciously trying to bring it back in a significant way. I was somewhat aware of this movement because of TikTok funnily enough \u2013 sometimes I am recommended videos from an Inuk woman named Shina Nova. She shows aspects of Inuit culture ranging from recipes with whale and caribou meat to traditional throat singing, and has semi-recently gotten some face tattoos. When I found Jana Angulalik\u2019s article in <em>Canadian Geographic<\/em>, I was mesmerized by the photos of young women\u2019s tattoos presented alongside their reasoning for getting them. Overall, this research process was really enjoyable for me.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In preparation for this class session, I did research on a national tradition of my choice: Inuit tattooing. I ended up reading seven different articles on the history of Inuit tattooing, and found it all to be very interesting. Lars Krutak\u2019s work was an important resource, and something I might return to \u2013 if relevant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11910,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11910"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":617,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616\/revisions\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar473-fall2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}