Wilfred (or William) Langdon Kihn (September 5, 1898 – December 12, 1957) was a portrait painter and illustrator specializing in portraits of American Indians. Motivated by a desire to document the disappearing aboriginal culture, he spent many years visiting and living with Indian tribes in the Western United States. In 1920, he was admitted to the Blackfeet tribe in Montana, under the name "Zoi-och-ka-tsai-ya," meaning "Chase Enemy in Water". His work is in the permanent collections of, among others, the McCord Museum in Montreal, Quebec, and the Davison Art Center Gallery at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut.[
Bringing together some of the most recognized and influential researchers and scientists in various space-related disciplines, Lunar Settlements addresses the many issues that surround the permanent human return to the Moon.
Book Description
All cultures everywhere have attempted to
change their body in an attempt to meet their cultural standards of
beauty, as well as their religious and or social obligations. In
addition, people modify and adorn their bodies as part of the complex
process of creating and re-creating their personal and social
identities. Body painting has probably been practiced since the
Paleolithic as archaeological evidence indicates, and the earliest
human evidence of tattooing goes back to the Neolithic with mummies
found in Europe, Central Asia, the Andes and the Middle East.
Adornments such as jewelry have been found in the earliest human graves
and bodies unearthed from five thousand years ago show signs of
intentional head shaping. It is clear that adorning and modifying the
body is a central human practice. Over 200 entries address the major
adornments and modifications, their historical and cross-cultural
locations, and the major cultural groups and places in which body
modification has been central to social and cultural practices. This
encyclopedia also includes background information on the some of the
central figures involved in creating and popularizing tattooing,
piercing, and other body modifications in the modern world. Finally,
the book addresses some of the major theoretical issues surrounding the
temporary and permanent modification of the body, the laws and customs
regarding the marking of the body, and the social movements that have
influenced or embraced body modification, and those which have been
affected by it. Entries include, acupuncture, amputation, Auschwitz,
P.T. Barnum, the Bible, body dysmorphic disorder, body piercing,
branding, breast augmentation and reduction, Betty Broadbent,
castration, Christianity, cross dressers, Dances Sacred and Profane,
Egypt, female genital mutilation, foot binding, freak shows, genetic
engineering, The Great Omi, Greco-Roman world, henna, infibulation,
legislation & regulation, lip plates, medical tattooing,
Meso-America, military tattoos, National Tattoo Association, nose
piercing, obesity, permanent makeup, primitivism, prison tattooing,
punk, rites of passage, scalpelling, silicone injections, Stalking Cat,
suspensions, tanning, tattoo reality shows, tattooing, Thailand,
transgender, tribalism.
