Customizing the Body
Tattoos continue to be a mark of alienation from the mainstream, but they also have an affiliative effect, identifying one as a member of a select group. This book discusses tattooing as a highly social act as a manipulation of self-image, as a symbolically meaningful form of body alteration in contemporary society.
GenresArt
220 pages
English edition · First published 1989 by Temple University Press · ISBN 9780877227649
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