Cultural Bodies: Ethnography and Theory is a unique collection that integrates two increasingly key areas of social and cultural research: the body and ethnogra

Explores the human body alphabetically by part, detailing practices and beliefs from the past and present and from around the world.

An ethnography of the tattoo community, tracing the practice's transformation from a mostly male, working-class phenomenon to one adapted and propagated by a mo

This challenging volume reasserts the centrality of the body within social theory as a means to understanding the complex interrelations between nature, culture

Examining photographs, illustrations, films and live performances, Peta Tait presents an extraordinary survey of 140 years of trapeze acts and the cultural iden