Skin: On the Cultural Border Between Self and World by Claudia Benthien

Skin: On the Cultural Border Between Self and World

Claudia Benthien with Thomas Dunlap (Translator)

256 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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"Only skin deep," "getting under one's skin," "the naked truth" metaphors about the skin pervade the language even as physical embellishments and alterations--tattoos, piercings, skin-lifts, liposuction, tanning, and more--proliferate in Western c...

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