num_pages: 206
description: Nonfiction. This book is an anthropological inquiry into a contemporary social enigma-the increasingly popular revival of ancient human decoration practices such as symbolic/deeply personal tattooing, multiple piercings, and ritual scarification. "Primitive" actions which rupture conventional confines of behavior &amp; aesthetics are objectively scrutinized. In context of the death of global frontiers, this volume charts the territory of the last remaining underdeveloped source of first-hand the human body.
language: English
title: Re/Search #12: Modern Primitives
titlecomplete: Re/Search #12: Modern Primitives
genres: Sociology, History, Anthropology, Reference, BDSM, Cultural Studies, Cultural, Fashion, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 557
publisher: RE/Search Publications