Tattoo, Torture, Mutilation, and Adornment: The Denaturalization of the Body in Culture and Text (Body in Culture Hist Rel (Dis))
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| Management number | 233511185 | Release Date | 2026/06/27 | List Price | $11.84 | Model Number | 233511185 | ||
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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. Read more
| ASIN | 0791410668 |
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| ISBN10 | 9780791410660 |
| ISBN13 | 978-0791410660 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press |
| Dimensions | 5.12 x 0.43 x 8.36 inches |
| Item Weight | 8.8 ounces |
| Print length | 184 pages |
| Publication date | September 17, 1992 |
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