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Customizing the body : the art and culture of tattooing /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sanders, Clinton
Other Authors: Vail, D. Angus
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2008.
Edition:Rev. and expanded ed.
Subjects:
Tattooing > Social aspects.
Tattoo artists.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : body alteration, artistic production, and the social world of tattooing
  • Becoming and being a tattooed person
  • The tattooist : tattooing as a career and an occupation
  • The tattoo relationship : risk and social control in the studio
  • Conclusion : tattooing and the social definition of art
  • Epilogue 2008 : body modification then and now / Clinton R. Sanders with D. Angus Vail.