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• Publisher : Duke University Press
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• Release Date : 25 June 2024

An ethnography of the tattoo community, tracing the practice's transformation from a mostly male, working-class phenomenon to one adapted and propagated by a more middle-class movement in the period from

• Publisher : Springer Nature
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• Release Date : 20 January 2022

The essays collected in Tattooed Bodies draw on a range of theoretical paradigms and empirical knowledge to investigate tattoos, tattooing, and our complex relations with marks on skin. Engaging with

• Publisher : Routledge
• File Size : 26,9 Mb
• Release Date : 17 December 2013

In recent years, body studies has expanded rapidly, becoming an increasingly popular field of study within anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies. This groundbreaking textbook takes the topics and theories from

• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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• Release Date : 30 August 2007

People everywhere have attempted to change their bodies in an effort to meet their cultural standards of beauty, as well as their religious and/or social obligations. Often times, this

• Publisher : State University of New York Press
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• Release Date : 01 September 1992

Contemporary theory across a wide range of disciplines denaturalizes the body and reveals it to be a social construction. Cultural practices which deform, adorn, mutilate, and obliterate the body illustrate

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 25 November 2019

Tattoo Histories is an edited volume which analyses and discusses the relevance of tattooing in the socio-cultural construction of bodies, boundaries, and identities, among both individuals and groups. Its interdisciplinary

• Publisher : Indiana University Press
• File Size : 50,8 Mb
• Release Date : 22 June 1994

"Volatile Bodies demonstrates that the sexually specific body is socially constructed: biology or nature is inherently social and has no pure or natural 'origin' outside culture. Being the raw material

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 14 November 2019

The first major scholarly investigation into the rich history of the marked body in the early modern period, this interdisciplinary study examines multiple forms, uses, and meanings of corporeal inscription

• Publisher : Routledge
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• Release Date : 20 August 2020

In the 1830s, missionaries in French Polynesia sought to suppress the traditional art of tattooing, because they believed it to be a barbaric practice. More than 150 years later, tattooing is

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
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• Release Date : 03 February 1997

The Qianlong emperor, who dominated the religious and political life of 18th-century China, was in turn dominated by elaborate ritual prescriptions. These texts determined what he wore and ate, how