LL-L "Icons" 2004.11.28 (03) [E]

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Onderwerp: Icons
Van: Pat Reynolds <pat at caerlas.demon.co.uk>

Elsie Zinsser writes
>I'd like to discuss the reasons other than cultural significance,
>vanity or perhaps fun (?!) behind tattooing, piercings, lobe stretching
>and shavings of young people.

An interesting introduction to the cultural significance of inscribing
the body is Juliete Fleming's _Graffiti and the Writing Arts of Early
Modern England_ (2001).

Yours, interested in parallels between bodies and houses,

Pat
(one parallel: my body does not have a 'Celtic' tattoo, but my previous
house - in England - had a Welsh name, "Caerlas", which is where my
email address comes from).

--
Pat Reynolds
pat at caerlas.demon.co.uk
   "It might look a bit messy now,
                    but just you come back in 500 years time"
   (T. Pratchett)

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Onderwerp: Icons
Van: "Mike Morgan" <Mike.Morgan at mb3.seikyou.ne.jp>

As for the inappropriate Japanese and Chinese found on tattoos (and
elsewhere), there is though a certain poetic jsutice to it ... if you look
at all the mangled, inappropriate and downright offensive English that
people (not just young people, but mothers with their little elementary
school kids, etc.) wear here in the "East".

Mike Morgan
Kobe City University of Foreign Studies
Mike.Morgan at mb3.seikyou.ne.jp


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