Category Archives: Biological Anthropology

FAQ: Did You Get Any Tattoos At The Convention? Why Are You Tattooing Yourself?

Posted on October 18, 2018 by Christopher Lynn

All summer after our fieldwork for the Inking of Immunity project at the Northwest Tatau Festival (see video about our project here and follow along on Facebook here), I was asked the same two questions: did you get any tattoos … Continue reading →

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Does firelight influence sleep quality?

Posted on October 6, 2018 by Christopher Lynn

I tweeted yesterday to David Samson that Asher Rosinger is making me look bad, so all the collaborations that make him so productive. Of course, I’m not really competing with Asher. We just profiled Asher’s productivity on a recent Sausage … Continue reading →

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Malu Is Like A Golden Ticket (Pt. 4)

Posted on May 12, 2018 by Christopher Lynn

Please consider contributing supporting the Inking of Immunity 2018 field season at Experiment.com/InkingImmunity. We were scheduled to start data collection with Chilo and the malu at 11AM in Pago Pago, with Joe at Off Da Rock in Nu’uuli at 1PM, and … Continue reading →

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Malu is Like a Golden Ticket (Pt. 3)

Posted on May 7, 2018 by Christopher Lynn

Please consider contributing supporting the Inking of Immunity 2018 field season at Experiment.com/InkingImmunity. We had worried when the study started that we would have difficulty juggling multiple tattoo sessions with only two researchers because we only took along one bioimpedance analyzer … Continue reading →

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Malu is Like a Golden Ticket (Pt. 2)

Posted on May 6, 2018 by Christopher Lynn

Please consider contributing supporting the Inking of Immunity 2018 field season at Experiment.com/InkingImmunity. Michaela and I were despondent from cancellations and because we were collecting data on day two of multiple sleeves (a full arm tattoo) at one studio. Meaning, … Continue reading →

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Malu is Like a Golden Ticket (Pt. 1)

Posted on May 3, 2018 by Christopher Lynn

Please consider contributing supporting the Inking of Immunity 2018 field season at Experiment.com/InkingImmunity. Prologue Instead of syllabus day, I read this story on the first day of my Fall 2017 Neuroanthropology class then launched right into the class. I’d never … Continue reading →

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Is tattooing a costly honest signal of fitness?

Posted on April 23, 2018 by Christopher Lynn

Last year I published a book chapter synthesizing an evolutionary perspective on tattooing for our Evolution Education in the American South volume and concluded by wondering whether athletes, specifically football players, get tattoos more than the average person (Lynn & … Continue reading →

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Of “Toxic” Tattooed Lymph Nodes and Public Relations

Posted on September 16, 2017 by Christopher Lynn

I was heartened this week by conversations with visiting ALLELE lecturer Nina Jablonski, one of the world’s foremost experts on skin biology and evolution. I was glad to see that she discussed tattooing in her 2006 book Skin: A Natural … Continue reading →

Posted in Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, Christopher Lynn, Columnists, Evolution & Pop Culture, Evolution in Media | Tagged cultural impacts on health, Ines Schreiver, media, neuroanthropology, Nina Jablonski, skin, tattoo pigments, tattooing, tattoos, toxicity | Comments Off

Tattoo Talk, Haircut, and a Shave

Posted on March 18, 2017 by Christopher Lynn

I spent two weeks in Wilmington, NC to work on an article from our Family and the Field Study with Michaela Howells. Our data look fascinating. It’s not so much remarkable as confirmatory and solid. We surveyed over 1000 anthropology … Continue reading →

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#2016Highlights Month-by-Month: Part 2

Posted on January 2, 2017 by Christopher Lynn

Contrary to the sense of things at the end with the triumph of he-who-shall-not-be-named and the demise of so many beloved friends and celebrities, 2016 was actually a banner friggin’ year for some of us personally, as I began addressing … Continue reading →

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