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Body Arts and Modernity (Hardcover, New)
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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.
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