Body Modification
( 1 )
Publication series ：1
Author： Featherstone Mike
Publisher： Sage Publications Ltd
Publication year： 2000
E-ISBN: 9781446264584
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780761967958
Subject： C91 Sociology
Keyword： 社会学
Language： ENG
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Description
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