Tattoo History

Interdisciplinary scholar Anna Felicity Friedman has been researching the history of tattooing—and collecting tattoos on her own body—for nearly 30 years. The author and editor of The World Atlas of Tattoo, Friedman manages the educational hub tattoohistorian.com, the popular social media outlet Tattoo History Daily, as well as a foundation and The Center for Tattoo History and Culture. As someone who writes, lectures, curates, and consults about tattooing, Friedman is ideally poised to elucidate the history and meaning behind the graphics we, as humans, have been choosing to imprint on our bodies for more than 5,000 years. This program was recorded on October 27, 2018. See upcoming CHF events: https://chicagohumanities.org Support CHF with a donation: supportchf.org Follow CHF on Twitter: http://twitter.com/Chi_Humanities Like CHF on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/chicagohumanities Help us caption & translate this video! https://amara.org/v/mTUc/