ISBN: 9781446227978

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 … Mehr…

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? Contributors address the question of the permanence of body transformation through fitness regimes and body building; look at the French performance artist Orlan and the Australian performance artist Stelarc who explored Western standard o; PDF; Reference > Interdisciplinary studies, Springer London<

2000, ISBN: 9781446227978

eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), This fascinating collection explores the growing range of body modification practices such as piercing, tattooing, branding, cutting and inserting implants,… Mehr…

eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), 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?, [PU: Sage Publications], Seiten: 352, [ED: 1], Sage Publications, 2000<

ISBN: 9781446227978

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 … Mehr…

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?; EPUB; Reference > Interdisciplinary studies, SAGE Publications<

ISBN: 9781446227978

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2000, ISBN: 9781446227978

eBooks, eBook Download (EPUB), [PU: Sage Publications], [ED: 1], Sage Publications, 2000