| Body Arts and Modernity Contributor(s): Ewart, Elizabeth (Editor), O'Hanlon, Michael E. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0954557298 ISBN-13: 9780954557294 Publisher: Sean Kingston Publishing OUR PRICE: $80.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2007 Annotation: Contributors to this volume draw together ideas emerging from the anthropology of the body, the Western interest in body ornamentation, and the recent revival of specific body arts such as tattooing and piercing. (Archeology/Anthropology) |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Art | Body Art & Tattooing - Health & Fitness | Beauty & Grooming - General |
| Dewey: 391.65 |
| LCCN: 2008360269 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.00 lbs) 196 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: What happens to body arts when these aesthetic practices assume fresh significance in the context of modernity? In many parts of the indigenous world, the realm of body arts has become an arena for innovation, debate, revival and repression under the conditions of modernity. Among some groups, formerly suppressed 'traditions' of body arts have recently been revived. Elsewhere, body arts have been the means for creating or renovating identities in response to a developing international tourist market and in the light of novel technologies of representation, such as photography and film. The contributions to this volume draw together ideas emerging from the anthropology of the body, the western interest in body ornamentation of the 'Other', and the recent revival of specific body arts such as tattooing and piercing. Drawing on ethnographic case studies from Amazonia, Indonesia, Africa, Melanesia and Polynesia, this volume shows how bodily presentation plays a fundamental role in contemporary identity politics in tension with encompassing national and global stereotypes, which may in turn both constrain and empower local traditions. |