Spiritual Skin: Magical Tattoos and Scarification – Wisdom, Healing, Shamanic Power, Protection. Part 2 – Scarification (Teil 2 – Skarifizierung) Baptism in Blood: Crocodile Spirits and Scarification of the Kaningara in Papua New Guinea (Blutige Taufe: Krokodilgeister und Skarifizierung der Kaningara in Papua-Neuguinea).
Spiritual skin: Magical tattoos and scarification | Lars F. Krutak
A photographic masterwork in two parts exploring the secret world of magical tattooing and scarification across the tribal world. Based on one decade of tattoo anthropologist Dr. Lars Krutak’s field work among animistic and shamanic societies of Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Melanesia, Spiritual Skin journeys into highly sacred territory to reveal how people utilize ritual body modification to enhance their access to the supernatural