BODY MODIFICATIONS: THE EDGE OF WONDER, THE BANKS OF THE WEIRD

This essay focuses on the bodily changes, practices which alter the appearance, shape, or body functions, which consist of actions taken over the body voluntary, with more or less precise goals and specific hazards known. Initially mentions alchemy and metamorphosis, similar phenomena also present i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Couy, Venus Brasileira
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2011
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná (UNIOESTE)
Repositorio:Travessias (Cascavel. Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.e-revista.unioeste.br:article/4719
Acceso en línea:https://e-revista.unioeste.br/index.php/travessias/article/view/4719
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:modificações corporais
corpo
moda
laço social
estranho
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Sumario:This essay focuses on the bodily changes, practices which alter the appearance, shape, or body functions, which consist of actions taken over the body voluntary, with more or less precise goals and specific hazards known. Initially mentions alchemy and metamorphosis, similar phenomena also present in the literature. It also presents the various forms of man relates to body. In this context, includes the changes that reproduce the canonical standards of beauty, reinforces practice standards of appearance and fitness ideology conveyed by the mass culture, and the surprises that seem to be "out of order"of things and do "something appear or reappear That the experience of embodiment, is of the order of the stranger. "Thus, the bodily changes continue to convenes a resumption of the subject to the human community and what it does to the body indicates the intention to post your entry in the social environment.