BRETON DAVID Cutting one's losses : an anthropology of cutting the body

»In adolescence the body becomes a projection surface that one must control by adorning it, concealing it, abusing it, etc. Existence is a matter of skin, a question of the frontier between inside and outside. Cutting into the body brings suffering to the surface of oneself, where it becomes visible and controllable; it is much more an act of passage than a passage to the act.»

Mots clés Scarification, Attacks on the body, Private rites, Survival, Anthropology, Suffering, Act of passage.