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Return of the tribal : a celebration of body adornment : piercing, tattooing, scarification, body painting / Rufus C. Camphausen.

Title
Return of the tribal : a celebration of body adornment : piercing, tattooing, scarification, body painting / Rufus C. Camphausen.
Author
Camphausen, Rufus C.
Publication
Rochester, Vt. : Park Street Press, c1997.

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Description
122 p. : ill. (some col.); 27 cm.
Subject
  • Body marking
  • Body piercing
  • Tattooing
  • Body Piercing
  • Scarification
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-120) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Skin and bone, body and soul: ancient and modern practices of body adornment -- I am marked, therefore I am: the self in the social mirror -- In one's own image: painting to piercing to transformation -- Skin as canvas: of spirit drawings and graffiti of the soul -- Invisible self: erotic adornment and modification -- Losses and gains: atonement by sacrifice and attunement by pain -- Our genetic memory: sex and drugs and ritual.
ISBN
0892816104 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^^97017043^
OCLC
  • 36865593
  • SCSB-10867819
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library