Body Modification (Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society) - Hardcover

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9780761967958: Body Modification (Published in Association with Theory, Culture & Society)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0761967958 ISBN 13: 9780761967958
Verlag: Sage Publications UK, 2000

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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

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CONTRIBUTORS′ AFFILIATIONS OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICA:

Robert Ayers Nottingham Trent University

Roy Boyne University of Durham

Julie Clarke RMIT University, Melbourne

Neal Curtis Nottingham Trent University

Ross Farnell Monash University, Australia

Jane Goodall UWS Hawkesbury, Australia

Christian Klesse University of Essex

Kevin McCarron Roehampton Institute, London

Lee Monaghan Cardiff University

Roberta Sassatelli University of East Anglia

Margrit Shildrick Staffordshire University

Stelarc Australian performance artist; Research Consultant, Nottingham Trent University

Paul Sweetman University of Durham

Bryan S Turner University of Cambridge

Nicholas Zurbrugg De Montfort University

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Verlag
Sage Publications UK
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0761967958
ISBN 13 
9780761967958
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
347
Herausgeber
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