Search Results for: Body Marks

Discusses the history of various forms of body marking, current popularity of body piercing and tattoos, how and why these are done, and some things to think ab

The first major scholarly investigation into the rich history of the marked body in the early modern period, this interdisciplinary study examines multiple form

Seven years, seven continents, and thirty countries, from the African savannah to the barrios of Los Angeles, from New Zealand to Egypt, and Brazil to Burkina F

Body piercing, scarification, tattooing - for thousands of years decorative alteration of the human body has been invested with profound cultural and social mea

What we know of the marked body in nineteenth-century American literature and culture often begins with The Scarlet Letter's Hester Prynne and ends with Moby Di