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Author Camphausen, Rufus C.

Title Return of the tribal : a celebration of body adornment : piercing, tattooing, scarification, body painting / Rufus C. Camphausen.

Publication Info. Rochester, Vt. : Park Street Press, [1997]
©1997

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  391.65 C195R    Check Shelf
Description 122 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-120) and index.
Contents Skin and bone, body and soul: ancient and modern practices of body adornment -- I am marked, therefore I am: the self in the social mirror -- In one's own image: painting to piercing to transformation -- Skin as canvas: of spirit drawings and graffiti of the soul -- Invisible self: erotic adornment and modification -- Losses and gains: atonement by sacrifice and attunement by pain -- Our genetic memory: sex and drugs and ritual.
Subject Body marking.
Body piercing.
Tattooing.
Indexed Term Scarification.
ISBN 0892816104 paperback alkaline paper
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