Anglický jazyk

Body Arts and Modernity

Vydavateľstvo: Sean Kingston Publishing
Rok vydania: 2007
Formát: Hardback
Rozmer: 240 x 161 mm
Jazyk: Anglický jazyk
ISBN: 9780954557294

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O knihe

What happens to body arts when these aesthetic practices assume fresh significance in the context of modernity?

In many parts of the indigenous world, the realm of body arts has become an arena for innovation, debate, revival and repression under the conditions of modernity. Among some groups, formerly suppressed 'traditions' of body arts have recently been revived. Elsewhere, body arts have been the means for creating or renovating identities in response to a developing international tourist market and in the light of novel technologies of representation, such as photography and film.

The contributions to this volume draw together ideas emerging from the anthropology of the body, the western interest in body ornamentation of the 'Other', and the recent revival of specific body arts such as tattooing and piercing. Drawing on ethnographic case studies from Amazonia, Indonesia, Africa, Melanesia and Polynesia, this volume shows how bodily presentation plays a fundamental role in contemporary identity politics in tension with encompassing national and global stereotypes, which may in turn both constrain and
empower local traditions.