ALL of 5 results for "Body Modification"
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Invasion of the
body snatchers
30 September 1982 • 2,506 words • Reportage & Criticism
The south-eastern Nuba are one of a number of Nuba groups–partly Islamised but largely unarabised–who live in the southern part of the province of Kordofan,… more»
The great deception
2 September 1995 • 1,833 words • City of Words
As the regime of Saddam Hussein and his son Uday approaches—hopefully—its final days, spare a thought for Fawaz-al-Emari. He is—or is said to be—the dictator’s… more»
Erotic engineering in Brazil
9 March 1998 • 1,062 words • City of Words
A RuPaul lookalike in a lace microskirt is plying her trade on the Avenida Augusto Severo in downtown Rio de Janeiro. She’s very tall, with… more»
Why you don’t see black girls in the rain
May 1996 • 1,135 words • City of Words
We live in a great age of hair. And in a great nation… more»
Scary piercings
1 June 1995 • 692 words • City of Words
A decade ago an Australian social anthropologist, Robert Brain, argued that the technology of body modification, borrowed from non-western societies, had been irredeemably trivialised in… more»
