Re: Socialisation of scar tissue
Bryant (mycol1@unm.edu)
23 Oct 1996 09:42:18 -0600
In article <326DEF12.3BBD@soton.ac.uk>,
David Wheatley <dww@soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>I am becoming interested in the social meanings which people attribute
>to intentional and unintentional body scars (particularly in
>pre-literate societies). I wonder if anyone has any pointers to
>literature on this theme?
A recent issue of Ethology and Sociobiology (1996) had an article on
scarification and social status. I tried to look up the exact reference
on scisearch, but "scarification" got me 700 articles on fire forestry
and surgery!
Bryant
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