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Stigma : marking skin in the early modern world
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ISBN: 9780271094427 0271094427 Year: 2023 Publisher: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press,

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"Investigates the intersecting histories of tattooing, branding, stigmata, baptismal and beauty marks, and the wounds and scars borne by early modern men and women. Examines these forms of dermal marking as manifestations of a powerful and ubiquitous material practice"--


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Nuba Personal Art.
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ISBN: 0715605941 Year: 1972 Publisher: London Duckworth

Body modification
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ISBN: 1446227979 1446264580 1283879573 0761967958 9781446264584 9780761967958 9781446220207 1446220206 9780761967965 0761967966 9781446227978 9781283879576 Year: 2000 Publisher: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE,

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

Le dessein sur la peau : essai d'anthropologie des inscriptions tégumentaires
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ISBN: 2700700872 9782700700879 Year: 1978 Volume: 1 Publisher: Paris: Aubier,


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Man as art : New Guinea
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ISBN: 081180478X 9780811804783 Year: 1993 Publisher: San Francisco: Chronicle books,


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The decorated body
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ISBN: 0091402700 Year: 1979 Publisher: London Hutchinson


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Writing on the body? : thinking through gendered embodiment and marked flesh
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ISBN: 1282192345 9786612192340 1443808725 9781443808729 Year: 2007 Publisher: Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars,

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This groundbreaking piece of work establishes a "position of embodiment" as an ethically salient epistemological and empirical strategy for understanding, representing, and experiencing gendered embodiment and marked flesh. Developing an embodied, feminist critique of the sociology of the body, the author integrates this position with some of the most recent developments in qualitative methodologies and creative research practices in order to engage with, and represent, women's experiences of...


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Veils, nudity, and tattoos : the new feminine aesthetic
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ISBN: 1498500471 9781498500470 9781498500463 1498500463 9781498500487 Year: 2015 Publisher: Lanham : Lexington Books,

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Veils, Nudity, and Tattoos: The New Feminine Aesthetics inaugurates a new approach toward the history and usage of nudity, veiling, and tattoos. By taking an unorthodox approach towards three phenomena that have changed considerably during the past thirty years, this book reveals through conceptual analysis that the three are both private and public, humiliating and empowering, and backward and progressive, and can ultimately be traced by similar social and psychological patterns.

Body modification
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ISBN: 0761967966 1446220206 9780761967965 Year: 2003 Publisher: London: Sage,

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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

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