Body Modification - Brossura

Featherstone, Mike

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0761967966 ISBN 13: 9780761967965

Casa editrice: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2000

Riassunto

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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Informazioni sull?autore

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

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0761967966
• ISBN 13: 9780761967965
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 356
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile