Kim Hewitt explores self-mutilation through history and across
cultural divisions, finding these acts "positive expressions of
social custom, individualism and resourcefulness . . . symptomatic
of crises of identity, religious faith, or modern social
structures." In modern contexts, such ancient rituals continue to
function as an avenue of symbolic death and rebirth. In her
analysis of the origins and motivations of body modification, the
author draws upon psychological, medical, and cultural theories on
self-inflicted pain-tattooing and scarification as well as fasting,
bulimia, and some performance art. She finds such contemporary acts
of self-mutilation may "express a change in how society perceives
marginalization."
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