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Body Modification

Edited by:

Mike Featherstone - Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

Series:
Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society

Other Titles in:
Popular Culture (General) | Sociology of Deviance | Sociology of the Body

May 2000 | 352 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

This fascinating collection explores the growing range of body modification practices such as piercing, tattooing, branding, cutting and inserting implants, which have sprung up recently in the West.

It asks whether this implies that we are returning to traditional tribal practices of inscribing identities onto bodies on the part of 'modern primitives', or is body modification better understood as purely cosmetic and decorative with body markings merely temporary signs of transferable loyalties?

Mike Featherstone

Body Modification

An Introduction

Christian Klesse

'Modern Primitivism'

Non-Mainstream Body Modification and Racialized Representation

Bryan S Turner

The Possibility of Primitiveness

Towards a Sociology of Body Marks in Cool Societies

Paul Sweetman

Anchoring the (Postmodern) Self? Body Modification, Fashion and Identity

Margrit Shildrick