Author: Ewart, Elizabeth (editor); O'Hanlon, Michael (editor).
Title: Body Arts and Modernity.
Description: Wantage, Oxon Sean Kingston Publishing, 2007. Hardback octavo, no jacket as issued, very good plus condition, pictorial cover, black & white text-photos. 185 pp. These essays 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 the Amazon, Indonesia, Africa, Melanesia and Polynesia, this volume shows how bodily presentation plays a fundamental role in contemporary identity politics, interacting with national and global stereotypes, that may in turn both constrain and empower local traditions. SALE PRICE. ISBN: 0954557298

Keywords: art, paintings, anthropology, society, modernity, biosciences, human body, pacific 0954557298


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