Customizing the Body

by Clinton Sanders, Angus Vail, and D. Angus Vail

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Originally published in 1989, this ground-breaking ethnographic exploration of tattooing-and the art world surrounding it-covers the history, anthropology and sociology of body modification practices; the occupational experience of the tattooist; the process and social consequences of becoming a tattooed person; and the prospects of \u0022serious\u0022 tattooing becoming an accepted art form. Curiously, despite the greater prevalence of tattoos and body modification in today\u2019s society, there is still a stigma of deviance associated with people who get or ink tattoos. Retaining the core of the original book, this revised and expanded edition offers a new preface by the author and...Read more
  • ISBN10 1281879037
  • ISBN13 9781281879035
  • Publish Date 1 January 2009 (first published 19 March 2007)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 9 June 2015
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Temple University Press
  • Edition Revised ed.
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 245
  • Language English