Customizing the Body
The Art and Culture of Tattooing
by Clinton Sanders
220 pages· 1989· ISBN 9780877227649
About
Tattoos continue to be a mark of alienation from the mainstream, but they also have an affiliative effect, identifying one as a member of a select group. This book discusses tattooing as a highly social act as a manipulation of self-image, as a symbolically meaningful form of body alteration in contemporary society.
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