'Modern primitivism': Non-mainstream body modification and racialized representation

Body and Society

Volumn 5, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 15-38

  Klesse, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0003373631     PISSN: 1357034X     EISSN: 14603632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1357034X99005002002     Document Type: Article

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