| Mutilating The Body: Identity In Blood And Ink Contributor(s): Hewitt, Kim (Author) |
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ISBN: 0879727101 ISBN-13: 9780879727109 Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2005 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Health & Fitness | Beauty & Grooming - General - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 391.65 |
| LCCN: 96035524 |
| Lexile Measure: 1570 |
| Physical Information: 0.55" H x 6.08" W x 8.98" (0.60 lbs) 172 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Kim Hewitt explores self-mutilation through history and across cultural divisions, finding these acts "positive expressions of social custom, individualism and resourcefulness . . . symptomatic of crises of identity, religious faith, or modern social structures." In modern contexts, such ancient rituals continue to function as an avenue of symbolic death and rebirth. In her analysis of the origins and motivations of body modification, the author draws upon psychological, medical, and cultural theories on self-inflicted pain-tattooing and scarification as well as fasting, bulimia, and some performance art. She finds such contemporary acts of self-mutilation may "express a change in how society perceives marginalization." |