Fertile Tattoos: Play, Embodiment, and the Transition to Womanhood in Drung Female Facial Tattooing
Fertile Tattoos: Play, Embodiment, and the Transition to Womanhood in Drung Female Facial Tattooing
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Publisher
Nagoya: Nanzan University
Journal title
Language
English
Formats
Publication information
Publisher
Nagoya: Nanzan University
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
This article examines the tradition of facial tattooing among Drung women in Yunnan province, China. Now obsolete, the practice of female tattooing-by puncturing the skin, causing bleeding and pain-used to enable and mark the social and physiological time of the transition to nubility, thus preparing women for their fertile becoming. The analysis f...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Fertile Tattoos: Play, Embodiment, and the Transition to Womanhood in Drung Female Facial Tattooing
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Record Identifier
TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2638773793
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2638773793
Other Identifiers
ISSN
1882-6865
