Courtney McTaggart
Annotated Bibliography
COMM 455
Carmen, Rachael, Guitar, Amanda, and Dillon, Haley. (2012). Ultimate Answers to Proximate Questions: The Evolutionary Motivations behind Tattoos, and Body Piercings in Popular Culture. Retrieved from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232565700_Ultimate_Answers_to_Proximate_Questions_The_Evolutionary_Motivations_Behind_Tattoos_and_Body_Piercings_in_Popular_Culture
This article is about piercings in popular culture. It states that this is an increasingly relevant and prevalent trend that is only gaining in popular. However, it emphasizes that piercings or body modification is not a new thing and that there is much history and tradition behind the practice. It highlights the categories …show more content…
Is it a fearless whim? Is it based upon a familial bonds? We never know what is going through an individual’s mind when they decide to modify their body. I really liked this article because it delves deeper into why people do what they do and how popular culture may have an influence in these decisions to modify our bodies based on what we see around us.
Ferreira, Victor. (June, 2010). Tattoo, body piercing, and the experience of pain: emotion, ritualization, and medicalization. Retrieved from: file:///C:/Users/courtmct/Downloads/The%20Commodification%20of%20Body%20Modification%20-%20Foster%20and%20Hummel.pdf
This article explores how people voluntarily inflict pain on themselves in order to receive a body piercing or tattoo despite societal taboos, influences, and health risks involved. It explores the emotions and feelings associated with the piercing process and how people connect with their chosen piercing. It also explores the piercers themselves and what they do to handle their clientele, their demands, and how they maintain a sanitary workspace to …show more content…
There are decisions made by every individual that walks into a parlor and their lives have impacted their path to that location. Many people use piercings as a coping mechanism, other find it to be beautiful expression of themselves. Either way, this article was written by somebody in the body modification community and approved as a dissertation by a panel which means that the story is being told from the perspective of somebody that has experienced it and has been
Annotated Bibliography
COMM 455
Carmen, Rachael, Guitar, Amanda, and Dillon, Haley. (2012). Ultimate Answers to Proximate Questions: The Evolutionary Motivations behind Tattoos, and Body Piercings in Popular Culture. Retrieved from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232565700_Ultimate_Answers_to_Proximate_Questions_The_Evolutionary_Motivations_Behind_Tattoos_and_Body_Piercings_in_Popular_Culture
This article is about piercings in popular culture. It states that this is an increasingly relevant and prevalent trend that is only gaining in popular. However, it emphasizes that piercings or body modification is not a new thing and that there is much history and tradition behind the practice. It highlights the categories …show more content…
Is it a fearless whim? Is it based upon a familial bonds? We never know what is going through an individual’s mind when they decide to modify their body. I really liked this article because it delves deeper into why people do what they do and how popular culture may have an influence in these decisions to modify our bodies based on what we see around us.
Ferreira, Victor. (June, 2010). Tattoo, body piercing, and the experience of pain: emotion, ritualization, and medicalization. Retrieved from: file:///C:/Users/courtmct/Downloads/The%20Commodification%20of%20Body%20Modification%20-%20Foster%20and%20Hummel.pdf
This article explores how people voluntarily inflict pain on themselves in order to receive a body piercing or tattoo despite societal taboos, influences, and health risks involved. It explores the emotions and feelings associated with the piercing process and how people connect with their chosen piercing. It also explores the piercers themselves and what they do to handle their clientele, their demands, and how they maintain a sanitary workspace to …show more content…
There are decisions made by every individual that walks into a parlor and their lives have impacted their path to that location. Many people use piercings as a coping mechanism, other find it to be beautiful expression of themselves. Either way, this article was written by somebody in the body modification community and approved as a dissertation by a panel which means that the story is being told from the perspective of somebody that has experienced it and has been