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Taboo : Marks of Identity
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When it comes to the face we present to the world, what choices to we have? In selecting a car, clothes, hairstyle, and other outward signals, do we display our true selves or is it simply human na...
When it comes to the face we present to the world, what choices to we have? In selecting a car, clothes, hairstyle, and other outward signals, do we display our true selves or is it simply human nature to hold up a mask? No one should find it surprising that the process by which an individual shapes his or her persona-and negotiates its appearance with society-changes vastly depending on geography. This program journeys around the world to examine notions and indicators of identity that are as varied as the cultures that produce them.
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- Creator
- National Geographic Television & Film
- Format
- Videos, Slides, Films
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2010]
- ©2004
- Physical Details
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- 1 streaming video file (47 min.) : sound, color, digital file
- digital
- data file
- ISBNs
- 9781616165345
- OCLC
- ocn741359685
- Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on Jan. 13, 2010.
- Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
- Mode of access: Internet.
- Introduction: Taboo: Marks of Identity (1:11) -- Mae Hong Son, Thailand: Bondage or Beauty (1:04) -- Paduang Tradition (1:43) -- Body Modifying Practices Around the World (0:59) -- A Painful Tradition (1:08) -- Under the Brass Collar (1:53) -- Deliberate Disfigurement (1:00) -- Caught Between Two Countries (1:50) -- Normal is in the Eye of the Beholder (1:32) -- Transformative Experience (1:16) -- Return to Tradition (1:20) -- Toyohashi, Japan: Extreme Tattoo (1:29) -- A Symbol of the Japanese Mob (1:29) -- Art of Horimono (2:05) -- Suits of Tattoos (1:54) -- Badge of Honor (1:47) -- Stigma of Horimono (1:17) -- The World of Yakuza (1:36) -- Horimono in the Mainstream (1:41) -- Japanese Body Art (2:02) -- United States: Branded (1:03) -- Body Modification Culture (2:28) -- Mark of Freedom (1:24) -- Mark of Self Ownership (0:49) -- Branding Process (1:51) -- Beauty of Body Modification (1:50) -- Art on the Human Body (1:45) -- Electrocautery Branding (1:12) -- Extreme Body Modification (1:41) -- Outside the Group (1:58)