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Facial tattooing among Drung women in Southwest China

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Facial tattooing is essentially a transition to what is and ought to be a woman. Gender performativity is associated with the materiality of the body: it is in fact the tattoo that makes a woman.
'The Viewpoint of the Technique: Managing Time and Crisis Resolution in Eastern Religions and Medicines' seminar series, 28-29 Jan 2010.

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Series
Anthropology
People
Stéphane Gros
Keywords
Tattooing
tattoos
play
pain
ArgO-EMR
gender
Drung
anthropology
china
generating synchronicity
Department: Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Date Added: 12/04/2010
Duration: 00:10:55

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