Encyclopedia of body adornment

Greenwood Press

2007

xx, 326 p.

9780313336959

Preface Introduction Alphabetical List of Entries 1. Acupuncture 2. Alliance of Professional Tattooists 3. American Tattooing 4. Amputation 5. Animal Branding 6. Animal Surgical Procedures 7. Animal Tattooing 8. Animality 9. Anorexia and Bulimia 10. Apotemnophilia 11. Asceticism 12. Association of Professional Piercers 13. Auschwitz 14. Australia 15. Bakhtin, Mikhail 16. Bariatric Surgery 17. Barnum, P.T. 18. BDSM 19. Beauty 20. Bible 21. Biker Tattooing 22. Bio-Power 23. BMEZine.com 24. Body Building 25. Body Dysmorphic Disorder 26. Body Hair 27. Body Painting 28. Body Piercing 29. Body Play 30. Bondage 31. Borneo 32. Bourdieu, Pierre 33. Branding 34. Brazil 35. Breast Augmentation and Reduction 36. Breast Ironing 37. Breast Reconstruction 38. Broadbent, Betty 39. Castration 40. Celts 41. Chicanos 42. China 43. Christianity 44. Circumcision 45. Class and Status 46. Clitoral Piercing 47. Clitoridectomy 48. Collins, Sailor Jerry 49. Contemporary Tattooing 50. Cook, Captain James 51. Corsets 52. Cosmetic Dentistry 53. Cosmetic Surgery 54. Cosmetic Tattooing 55. Cosmetics 56. Criminality 57. Cross Dressers 58. Cutting 59. Dances Sacred and Profane 60. Dermal Anchoring 61. Ear Piercing 62. Ear Shaping 63. Ear Spools and Ear Plugs 64. Ear Stretching 65. Easter Island 66. Egypt 67. Encumberments 68. England 69. Enigma, The 70. Ethiopia 71. Facial Hair 72. Facial Piercing 73. Facial Tattoos 74. Female Genital Mutilation 75. Finger Nails 76. Flash 77. Flesh Coils 78. Flesh Tunnels 79. Foot Binding 80. Foucault, Michel 81. Fraternities 82. Freak Shows 83. Freaks 84. Gang members 85. Gauntlet 86. Genetic Engineering 87. Genital Mutilation 88. Genital Piercing 89. Genital Tattooing 90. Gender 91. Great Omi, The 92. Greco-Roman World 93. Hair Cutting and Head Shaving 94. Hair Styles 95. Hair Treatments 96. Hand Piercing 97. Hardy, Don Ed 98. Hawaii 99. Haworth, Steve 100. Head Binding 101. Health Issues 102. Henna 103. Hijras 104. Implants 105. India 106. Infibulation 107. Intersexuality 108. Inuit 109. Islam 110. Ivory Coast 111. Japan 112. Jewelry 113. Judaism 114. Labrets 115. Lazonga, Vyvyn 116. Legislation & Regulation 117. Lip Plates 118. Magic 119. Makeup 120. Maori 121. Marquesas 122. Marshall Islands 123. Medical Tattooing 124. Meso-America 125. Military Tattoos 126. Modern Primitives 127. Modern Primitives 128. Moko 129. Musfar, Fakir 130. National Tattoo Association 131. Native Americans 132. Navel Piercing 133. Neo-Paganism 134. New Guinea 135. New Zealand 136. Nigeria 137. Nipple Piercing 138. Nose Piercing 139. Obesity 140. Oral Piercing 141. Orchiectomy 142. Pacific Northwest Indians 143. Pain 144. Papua New Guinea 145. Pea 146. Penis Piercing 147. Permanent Makeup 148. PFIQ 149. Philippines 150. Piercing 151. Plastic Surgery 152. Pocketing & Stapling 153. Primitivism 154. Prison Tattooing 155. Punk 156. Rites of Passage 157. Roman 158. Russia 159. Samoa 160. Scalpelling 161. Scarification 162. Self-Mortification 163. Self-Mutilation 164. Sex Reassignment Surgery 165. Sideshow 166. Silicone Injections 167. Skin Whitening 168. Slavery 169. Spanner Case 170. Sprague, Eric 171. Stalking Cat 172. Stigmata 173. Stretching 174. Sudan 175. Super/Sub-incision 176. Surface Piercing 177. Suspensions 178. Tahiti 179. Tanning 180. Tattoo Community 181. Tattoo Magazines 182. Tattoo Reality Shows 183. Tattoo Removal 184. Tattoo Shows 185. Tattoo Technology 186. Tattooed Attractions 187. Tattooed Natives 188. Tattooing 189. Tattootime 190. Thailand 191. Tightlacing 192. Tonga 193. Tongue Splitting 194. Torture 195. Transgender 196. Transsexuals 197. Transvestites 198. Trepanation 199. Tribalism 200. Tuttle, Lyle 201. Wagner, Charlie 202. Ward, Jim 203. Wildenstein, Jocelyn 204. Yakuza 205. Zaire 206. Zeis, Milton 207. Zulueta, Leo Topical List of Entries The Encyclopedia Resource Guide Bibliography About the Author Index

Over 200 entries address the major adornments and modifications, their historical and cross-cultural locations, and the major cultural groups and places in which body modification has been central to social and cultural practices. This encyclopedia also includes background information on the some of the central figures involved in creating and popularizing tattooing, piercing, and other body modifications in the modern world. Finally, the book addresses some of the major theoretical issues surrounding the temporary and permanent modification of the body, the laws and customs regarding the marking of the body, and the social movements that have influenced or embraced body modification, and those which have been affected by it.

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