Customizing the body
Subtitle: the art and culture of tattooing
By: Clinton R. Sanders.
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780877225751; 9780877227649
Subjects: Tattooing -- Social aspects; Tattoo artists
Notes: Includes index.

Bibliography: p. [195]-211.

Table of contents: title: Introduction: body alteration, artistic production, and the social world of tattooing; title: Becoming and being a tattooed person; title: The tattooist: tattooing as a career and an occupation; title: The tattoo relationship: risk and social control in the studio; title: Conclusion: tattooing and the social definition of art.