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Medicine Anthropology Theory, 2023 Body modifications such as tattoo, scarification and body suspension represent not only aesthetic interventions, they can also be social practices with which to challenge and transcend the body’s limits, operating on the perception of wellbeing and ...
Federica Manfredi
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Popularity of body modifications and knowledge about their complications among young adults [PDF]
Journal of Education, Health and Sport, 2017 Background and objectives. Body modifications are practices leading to transient or permanent change of various parts of human body. The most popular forms of body modifications are: tattooing and piercing.
Joanna Pekar +4 more
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Trans* příběhy o těle a s tělem [PDF]
Gender a Výzkum, 2016 The heteronormative order is based on the categorisation of people into men and women. The categories of man and woman are understood as given, fixed, ahistorical, and universal. Trans* identities represent a ‘border area’ where categories of woman, man,
Dita Jahodová
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Body Modification in East Asia: An Introduction [PDF]
Asian Studies Review, 2021 This short article introduces the special issue “Chasing Beauty: Cosmetic Surgery and Skin Lightening in East Asia”.
Henley, D.E.F., Porath, N.
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Современная зарубежная психология, 2020 The article presents a theoretical analysis of modern foreign ideas about socio-psychological phenomena and factors associated with tattooing and abandonment among adolescents and young people, as well as the role of body modifications in the development
Kozhuhar G.S.
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S/M, Splatter, and Body Modifications in the early Clive Barker
Whatever, 2022 This paper deals with three components of the aesthetic framework elaborated by author, artist, and filmmaker Clive Barker in his first works during the first half of the 1980s, with a particular focus on the fictional creatures known as Cenobites ...
Giorgio Paolo Campi
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Historická sociologie, 2020 The text focuses on a critical reflection on research conducted among Czech bodyhackers and, in general, on the possibilities and limitations of the conceptualization of the body, which is a product of technohuman interconnections, in socialscientific ...
Jana Kadlecová
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European Psychiatry, 2022 Introduction Previous studies suggest that individuals with tattoos and piercings exhibit higher impulsive personality traits compared to peers without body modifications.
M. Glans, S. Bejerot, J. Dossou Nilsson
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Applications of modern biotechnology from a perspective of body as a project
Rozprawy Społeczne, 2019 The primary purpose of this article is to show the place of the body in culture and society as a project from a perspective of modern biotechnology. These considerations fall within the scope of sociology of the body, sociology of culture and cultural ...
Ewa Staniec-Januszek
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Deviance as an historical artefact: a scoping review of psychological studies of body modification
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 Body modification is a blanket term for tattooing, piercing, scarring, cutting, and other forms of bodily alteration generally associated with fashion, identity, or cultural markings.
Rebecca Owens +4 more
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