Archeology of tattoos and other brands in the contemporary body: the mystical stigma to body art
- Journal of Historical Archaeology & Anthropological Sciences
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Ario Borges Nunes Junior
Abstract
This study aims to characterize the phenomena of tattoos, piercings and other brands and signals produced along the body length, so expressive among teenagers and young contemporaries, to then relate them to other cultural events involving the body, located in the religious field and the other in the aesthetic: the mystical stigmata and body art, respectively. The three events (tattoos and piercings, body art and mystical stigmata), although in its own way and according to the temporal and ideological circumstances that have defined, show the plastic character of the meat, as a guarantee for the subject of virtual triumph over natural.
Keywords
body, tatoos, piercings, body art, mystical stigmata