"...this work provides insight into a relatively understudied segment of the population."--
Library Journal". . . a fascinating and sensitive look at body modification subcultures and the political debates surrounding them."-Patricia Clough, author of
Autoaffection: Unconscious Thought in the Age of Teletechnology "The book refreshingly moves the arresting figure of the extreme body modifier out of the realm of the pathological and the masochistic and reveals how these practices and their disturbing embodiments challenge the tyrannical concept of normalcy that keeps the rest of us narrowly in check."--Rosemarie Garland-Thomson, Emory University
In the Flesh: The Cultural Politics of Body Modification,Victoria Pitts,Palgrave Macmillan,0312293119,Anthropology - General,Body marking,Body piercing,Body, Human,Pop Arts / Pop Culture,Popular Culture - General,Scarification (Body marking),Science/Mathematics,Social Science,Sociology - General,Tattooing,Tattoos, Mehndi, & Body Painting, Etc.,Popular culture,Social & cultural anthropology,Social Science / Sociology / General
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