Since the 1980s, tattooing has emerged anew in the United States as a widely appealing cultural, artistic, and social form. In "Bodies of Inscription" Margo DeMello explains how elite tattooists, magazine editors, and leaders of tattoo organizations have downplayed the working-class roots of tattooing in order to make it more palatable for middle-class consumption. She shows how a completely new set of meanings derived primarily from non-Western cultures has been created to give tattoos an exotic, primitive flavor. Community publications, tattoo conventions, articles in popular...
Since the 1980s, tattooing has emerged anew in the United States as a widely appealing cultural, artistic, and social form. In "Bodies of Inscription"...
This is a concise yet complete overview of the problems of animal suffering, linking them to larger issues of human and environmental exploitation. Authors Erin E. Williams and Margo DeMello examine industries that exploit animals -- meat processing companies and agribusinesses; medical experimentation and cosmetic testing facilities; the entertainment industry (circuses, rodeos, zoos, racing, and film making); the pet industry; the fur and leather industry; and commercial and recreational activities centered on hunting. The authors also consider the adverse environmental effects of animal...
This is a concise yet complete overview of the problems of animal suffering, linking them to larger issues of human and environmental exploitation. Au...
Take a walk in someone else's shoes in this fascinating examination of shoes and feet around the world This one-of-a-kind A-Z reference work contains over 150 fascinating entries and intriguing sidebars that look at feet and adornment of feet across the many cultures of the world throughout time. A wide range of international and multicultural topics are covered, including foot binding, fetishes, diseases of the foot, customs and beliefs related to the foot, shoe construction, myths and folktales featuring feet or shoes, the history of footwear, iconic brands and types of shoes, important...
Take a walk in someone else's shoes in this fascinating examination of shoes and feet around the world This one-of-a-kind A-Z reference work conta...
This book contributes to the growing field of human-animal studies by examining the human impulse evidenced in blogs, social networking sites, video games, comic books, and animal welfare literature to ventriloquize the animal voice. Gathering scholars from a range of disciplines - anthropology, literature, history, religious studies, and women's studies - and engaging with the work of ethologists, primatologists, and animal behaviourists, the volume explores the ethical, epistemological, sociological, and anthropological implications of the phenomenon, asking not only what it tells us about...
This book contributes to the growing field of human-animal studies by examining the human impulse evidenced in blogs, social networking sites, video g...
Our faces identify who we are--not only what we look like and what ethnicities we belong to, but they can also identify what religions we practice and what personal ideologies we have. This one-of-a-kind A-Z reference explores the ways we change, beautify, and adorn our faces to create our personalities and identities.
In addition to covering the basics such as the anatomical structure and function of parts of the human face, the entries examine how the face is viewed around the world, allowing students to easily draw connections and differences between various cultures around the...
Our faces identify who we are--not only what we look like and what ethnicities we belong to, but they can also identify what religions we practice ...
Considering that much of human society is structured through its interaction with non-human animals, and since human society relies heavily on the exploitation of animals to serve human needs, human-animal studies has become a rapidly expanding field of research, featuring a number of distinct positions, perspectives, and theories that require nuanced explanation and contextualization. The first book to provide a full overview of human-animal studies, this volume focuses on the conceptual construction of animals in American culture and the way in which it reinforces and perpetuates...
Considering that much of human society is structured through its interaction with non-human animals, and since human society relies heavily on the exp...
In recent years, body studies has expanded rapidly, becoming an increasingly popular field of study within anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies. This groundbreaking textbook takes the topics and theories from these disciplines, and combines them into one single, easily accessible text for students.
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Body Studies" is a comprehensive textbook on the social and cultural uses and meanings of the body, for use in undergraduate college courses. Its clear, accessible chapters explore, among other things:
the measurement and classification of the human body
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In recent years, body studies has expanded rapidly, becoming an increasingly popular field of study within anthropology, sociology, and cultural st...
For thousands of years, in the myths and folktales of people around the world, animals have spoken in human tongues. Western and non-Western literary and folkloric traditions are filled with both speaking animals, some of whom even narrate or write their own autobiographies. Animals speak, famously, in children's stories and in cartoons and films, and today, social networking sites and blogs are both sites in which animals-primarily pets-write about their daily lives and interests. Speaking for Animals is a compilation of chapters written from a variety of disciplines that attempts...
For thousands of years, in the myths and folktales of people around the world, animals have spoken in human tongues. Western and non-Western litera...
