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Body modification

Title:

Body modification

Author:

Featherstone, Mike.

ISBN:

9780761967965

9780761967958

Publication Information:

London : SAGE, 2000.

Physical Description:

347p. : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.

General Note:

Simultaneously published as Body & society vol.5, nos.2-3.

Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society.

Subject Term:

Body marking.

Human body -- Symbolic aspects.

Added Author:

Featherstone, Mike.

Added Corporate Author:

Nottingham Trent University. Theory, Culture & Society Centre.

Added Title:

Body & society.

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Summary

This fascinating collection explores the growing range of body modification practices such as piercing, tattooing, branding, cutting and inserting implants, which have sprung up recently in the West.

It asks whether this implies that we are returning to traditional tribal practices of inscribing identities onto bodies on the part of ′modern primitives′, or is body modification better understood as purely cosmetic and decorative with body markings merely temporary signs of transferable loyalties?

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