The Body Decorated

The Body Decorated

Author: Victoria Ebin

Publisher: [London ; New York] : Thames and Hudson

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 93

ISBN-13: 9780500060087

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Examines a variety of tattooing, scarification, painting and adornment techniques used in Africa, Asia, America, and Oceania since the eighteenth century with a discussion of body adornment in rituals and religion


Decorated Skin

Decorated Skin

Author: Karl Gröning

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9780500283288

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Celebrates body decorations through color photographs and commentaries that describe the evolution of different practices throughout history and its role in specific special occasions.


Tattooed

Tattooed

Author: Michael Atkinson

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9780802085689

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Cultural sensibilities about tattooing are discussed within historical context and in relation to broader trends in body modification, such as cosmetic surgery, dieting, and piercing.


The Magical Body

The Magical Body

Author: Richard Eves

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 334

ISBN-13: 9789057023057

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First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.


Painted Bodies

Painted Bodies

Author: Carol Beckwith

Publisher: Rizzoli Publications

Published: 2012-09-18

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 0847834050

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The seminal volume on body painting and adornment by the world’s preeminent photographers of African culture. Following the international masterpiece Africa Adorned, Carol Beckwith and Angela Fisher have focused on the traditions of body painting spanning the vastly unique cultures of the African continent. In a contemporary world so fascinated with tattoos and piercings, Beckwith and Fisher document the origins of these fashionable adornments as passed down through African tribal culture. Featured are portraits of the richly colored, detailed, and exquisite body paintings of the Surma, Karo, Maasai, Himba, and Hamar peoples, among others. Drawing from expeditions in the field and firsthand experiences with African peoples and cultures over the past thirty years and with more than 250 spectacular photographs, this is the definitive work on the expressiveness and imagination of African cultural painting of the human body.


The Decorated Body

The Decorated Body

Author: Robert Brain

Publisher: Hutchinson Radius

Published: 1979

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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Body painting, decoration, depilation, mutilation, scarification around the world with examples from Australian Aboriginal cultures and social, sexual and religious associations (totemic, mourning, passage rites)


Marks of Civilization

Marks of Civilization

Author: Arnold Rubin

Publisher: University of California Los Angeles, Fowler Museum of Cultural History

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13:

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Body piercing, scarification, tattooing - for thousands of years decorative alteration of the human body has been invested with profound cultural and social meaning. This collection of essays, photographs and drawings focuses on the many and diverse ways that human beings have permanently decorated their bodies.


Body Style

Body Style

Author: Theresa M. Winge

Publisher: Berg

Published: 2012-01-01

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 1847880231

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"Body Style reveals the subcultural body as a site for understanding subcultural identity, resistance, agency and fashion. Analyzed, theorized, politicized, and sensationalized, the subcultural body functions as a framework where individuals build a sense of self and subcultural identity. Drawing on specific subcultural examples and interviews with subculture members, Body Style explores the subcultural body and its style within global culture. Body Style is the result of over eleven years of research examining these intersections within specific urban subcultures, including Urban Tribalists, Modern Primitives, Punks, Cybers, Industrials, Skates, and others. Divided into three main sections on subcultural body history, subcultural body identity and subcultural body styles, this book will be of particular interest to students of dress and fashion as well as those coming to subculture from sociology and cultural studies"--


The Konyaks

The Konyaks

Author: Phejin Konyak

Publisher:

Published: 2018-09

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9789351941125

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- The first time such intensive research and documentation on Konyak tattoo art has been undertaken - An overall view of the Konyak people, their society, way of life and the culture in detail The Konyaks - a once fearsome headhunting tribe in Nagaland on the border of Myanmar in northeast India - are well known for their iconic body and facial tattoos, originally earned for taking an enemy's head. This book - over four years in the making - is the personal journey of a Konyak woman who retraces the steps of her grandfather and great-grandfather by documenting her tribe's tattooing practices. She explores the Konyak's concept of beautification of the body using it as a canvas for art, with inscriptions marked on the skin as a form of rite of passage and cycle of life. With elegant and powerful portraits of elders, both men and women, this book preserves the unique but vanishing practices of the culture, together with tattoo patterns, their meanings, and the oral traditions attached to them in folktales, songs, poems and sayings. It includes descriptions and information on headhunting and tattooing practices; reasons behind them; techniques used; tattoo artists; different tattoo groups; types of tattoos; and personal stories. Contents: The Konyaks; Headhunting; Traditional Tattooing Art; Tattoo Artist; Face Tattoo Group SHEN-TU; Body Tattoo Group TANGTA-TU; Nose Tattoo Group KONG-TU; The Last of the Tattooed Headhunters; Glossary.