Man has voluntarily tatooed, scarified, drilled, deformed, stretched and otherwise mutilated his own body. These permanent alterations called « mutilations » are found in all parts of the world. All parts of the human body have at one time or another been concerned by this Art. The practice of tatooing appeared at the superior Paleolithic age, along with the amputation of fingers, the emphasis put on the gynoid outline of the female body, and all these mutilations are thought to be corollaries of man's metaphysical thought that found its expression in the Mousterian age when man started burying his dead. Since the Epipaleolithic age other mutilations have appeared such as dental mutilations, or large skull trepanning in the Neolithic period...
The dismemberment of a corpse is fairly rare in forensic medicine. It is usually performed with diff...
Since the late 19th century, genital modifications (female and male) have been an important research...
“Female genital mutilation” is a contemporary invention that has become an object of political debat...
Man has voluntarily tatooed, scarified, drilled, deformed, stretched and otherwise mutilated his own...
Les mutilations corporelles constituent un ensemble de pratiques qui révèle non seulement la percept...
In the 90s the artist ORLAN does "Operations - Performance". Art ORLAN questions the modified body h...
International audience« Man in his natural state is a pure spirit as he is distinct from the animal ...
International audienceTo highlight the link between politics and private self-mutilation in Western ...
Si la modernité de nos sociétés classifie les mutilations comme des coutumes "barbares", il n'en est...
The dental mutilation was a cultural practice in Mesoamerica, being accepted that it was used to re-...
According to Byzantine scholarship, the maschalismos was some sort of ritual mutilation practiced by...
International audienceThis paper takes a new look at the case of the tattoos worn by Ötzi, a late Ne...
The primitive anthropological meaning of genital ornamentation is not clearly defined and the origin...
Female genital mutilation (FGM) has four major types which arise from the degree to which the extern...
Les individus qui se blessent intentionnellement le font à travers un large champ d’action qui va de...
The dismemberment of a corpse is fairly rare in forensic medicine. It is usually performed with diff...
Since the late 19th century, genital modifications (female and male) have been an important research...
“Female genital mutilation” is a contemporary invention that has become an object of political debat...
Man has voluntarily tatooed, scarified, drilled, deformed, stretched and otherwise mutilated his own...
Les mutilations corporelles constituent un ensemble de pratiques qui révèle non seulement la percept...
In the 90s the artist ORLAN does "Operations - Performance". Art ORLAN questions the modified body h...
International audience« Man in his natural state is a pure spirit as he is distinct from the animal ...
International audienceTo highlight the link between politics and private self-mutilation in Western ...
Si la modernité de nos sociétés classifie les mutilations comme des coutumes "barbares", il n'en est...
The dental mutilation was a cultural practice in Mesoamerica, being accepted that it was used to re-...
According to Byzantine scholarship, the maschalismos was some sort of ritual mutilation practiced by...
International audienceThis paper takes a new look at the case of the tattoos worn by Ötzi, a late Ne...
The primitive anthropological meaning of genital ornamentation is not clearly defined and the origin...
Female genital mutilation (FGM) has four major types which arise from the degree to which the extern...
Les individus qui se blessent intentionnellement le font à travers un large champ d’action qui va de...
The dismemberment of a corpse is fairly rare in forensic medicine. It is usually performed with diff...
Since the late 19th century, genital modifications (female and male) have been an important research...
“Female genital mutilation” is a contemporary invention that has become an object of political debat...