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Facial tattooing among Drung women in Southwest China

Facial tattooing among Drung women in Southwest China

FromAnthropology


Facial tattooing among Drung women in Southwest China

FromAnthropology

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Length:
29 minutes
Released:
Apr 12, 2010
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

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.
Released:
Apr 12, 2010
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Podcasts from the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography. The School is renowned for its contributions to anthropological theory, its commitment to long-term ethnographic fieldwork, and its association with the Pitt Rivers Museum and the anthropology of visual and material culture. Home to over forty academic staff, over a hundred doctoral students, twelve Master’s programmes, and two undergraduate degrees (Human Sciences; Archaeology and Anthropology), Oxford anthropology is one of the world’s largest and most vibrant centres for teaching and research in the discipline. It came top of the Power (research excellence + volume) rankings for anthropology in the UK in RAE 2008.