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Author Sanders, Clinton.

Title Customizing the body : the art and culture of tattooing / Clinton R. Sanders.

Imprint Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1989.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe Special Collections Adams  391.65 Sa56c c.2  ---  Lib Use Only
Description xi, 220 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Note Includes index.
Bibliography Bibliography: p. [195]-211.
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.
Subject Tattooing -- Social aspects.
Tattoo artists.
ISBN 0877227640 (pbk.)
0877225753 : $27.95

 
    
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