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The Anthropology (and Sociology) of Body Modification

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Jason C. Romero
on December 1, 2008
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In the never-ending search for future projects, I recently considered extreme body modification as a possible project. It fits with the interest I have in the body — an interest that is shared by many in the discipline — and I think it would provide an interesting alternative to existing engagements with the body.

However, it looks like a couple of people have already beaten me to the punch.

http://news.bmezine.com/2008/09/06/anthropology-thesis/

Hi, my name is Alisha Gauvreau and I am a fourth-year Anthropology student at Laurentian University. … For my fourth-year university thesis, I am studying suspension as practiced by members of the body modification community in Canada.

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I’m a graduate student with the UCCS sociology department and I’m working on my masters thesis on non-mainstream body modification.

It is good at least to see from the comments that the community was very receptive to the research these two were conducting.