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The Anthropology (and Sociology) of Body Modification

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Jason C. Romero
on December 1, 2008
in Footnotes
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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.

Nice, nize, nizzle.

Published
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Jason C. Romero
on October 18, 2008
in Diary
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Jason: I should start numbering the times that I say nice.
Jason: I wish there was an easy way to do it.
Angie: Why do you want to keep track?
Jason: Absurdity.
Angie: And what would you do with alternate spellings, like nize?
Jason: Yeah, that’s the difficulty.
Jason: I only do this to confound anyone that would try to go back and code my logs.
Jason: “Nice, okay. Wait… nize? Sigh, alright. WAIT — NIZZLE!? Fuck this. Fuck sociology. I give up. I quit.”
Angie: Haha.