9780791410660-0791410668-Tattoo, Torture, Mutilation, and Adornment: The Denaturalization of the Body in Culture and Text (SUNY Series, the Body in Culture, History, and Religion)

Tattoo, Torture, Mutilation, and Adornment: The Denaturalization of the Body in Culture and Text (SUNY Series, the Body in Culture, History, and Religion)

ISBN-13: 9780791410660
ISBN-10: 0791410668
Author: Frances E Mascia-Lees
Publication date: 1992
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Format: Paperback 190 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780791410660
ISBN-10: 0791410668
Author: Frances E Mascia-Lees
Publication date: 1992
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Format: Paperback 190 pages

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Tattoo, Torture, Mutilation, and Adornment: The Denaturalization of the Body in Culture and Text (SUNY Series, the Body in Culture, History, and Religion) (ISBN-13: 9780791410660 and ISBN-10: 0791410668), written by authors Frances E Mascia-Lees, was published by State University of New York Press in 1992. With an overall rating of 4.2 stars, it's a notable title among other Textile & Costume (Decorative Arts & Design, Body Art & Tattoo, Arts Other, Beauty, Grooming, & Style, Women's Studies, Cultural, Anthropology, Anthropology, Behavioral Sciences) books. You can easily purchase or rent Tattoo, Torture, Mutilation, and Adornment: The Denaturalization of the Body in Culture and Text (SUNY Series, the Body in Culture, History, and Religion) (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Textile & Costume books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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Analyzes the power of culture to encode its messages on the human form.

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 that it is an important site for the inscription of culture. The authors draw on cross currents in feminist theory, literary criticism, anthropology, and history to analyze several such cultural practices as examples of the power of culture to encode its messages on the human form.
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