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Nuba personal art [by] James C. Faris.

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[Toronto] University of Toronto Press [1972]

1972

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The history of tattooing and its significance, with some account of other forms of corporal marking. London, H. F. & G. Witherby, 1925.

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Detroit, Gale Research Co., 1974.

1974-1925

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Observaciones sobre pinturas corporales de los Menkronontire (Kayapó) por Olaf Blixen y Alejandro A. Pesce. Montevideo, Impr. "El siglo ilustrado", 1967. 7 p. illus.

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1967

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The tribal markings and marks of adornment of the natives of the northern territories of the Gold Coast Colony / [by] Captain C. H. Armitage.

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London : Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, 1924.

1924

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Le dessein sur la peau : essai d'anthropologie des inscriptions tégumentaires / Jean-Thierry Maertens, avec la collaboration de Marguerite DeBilde ; pref. d'Yvan Simonis.

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Paris : Aubier Montaigne, c1978.

1978

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The body decorated / Victoria Ebin.

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[London ; New York] : Thames and Hudson, c1979.

1979

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The body decorated / Victoria Ebin.

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[London ; New York] : Thames and Hudson, c1979.

1979

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The decorated body / Robert Brain.

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London : Hutchinson, 1979.

1979

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Man as art : New Guinea / photographs by Malcolm Kirk ; introduction by Andrew Strathern.

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New York : Viking Press, 1981.

1981

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Man as art : New Guinea / photographs by Malcolm Kirk ; introduction by Andrew Strathern.

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New York : Viking Press, 1981.

1981

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Corps en fête / documents photographiques, Charles et Josette Lenars, textes de André Virel.

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Paris : Draeger : le Soleil noir, 1979.

1979

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A survey of Nigerian body markings and their relationship to other Nigerian arts [microform] / by Cornelius Oyeleke Adepegba.

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1976.

1976

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Art of Rājasthān : henna and floor decorations / Jogendra Saksena ; foreword by V.S. Agrawala.

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Delhi : Sundeep, 1979.

1979

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Precolombian dermatology & cosmetology in Mexico / Dominique D. Vérut ; translated from the Spanish by Barbara Andrade.

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[New York] : Schering Corporation USA, c1973.

1973

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Africa adorned / by Angela Fisher.

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New York : Abrams, 1984.

1984

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The use and function of tattooing on Moroccan women / Susan Searight.

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New Haven, Conn. (P.O. Box 2015, Yale Station, New Haven 06520) : Human Relations Area Files, 1984.

1984

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IWU : the body markings of the Edo people / by Edhaguosa Aisien ; illustrations by Osemwegie Amadasun.

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Benin City, Nigeria : Aisien Publishers, c1986.

1986

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Tsantsa, tatuajes y pinturas corporales / C. Bianchi, F. Róvere ; dibujos de Franco Róvere.

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Sucua, Ecuador : Mundo Shuar, Centro de Documentación, Investigación y Publicaciones, [1977?]

1977

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Body styles / Ted Polhemus.

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Luton [England] : Lennard Pub. in association with Channel Four Television Co., 1988.

1988

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Marks of civilization : artistic transformations of the human body / Arnold Rubin, editor.

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Los Angeles, Calif. : Museum of Cultural History, University of California, Los Angeles, c1988.

1988

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Meṃhadī rācaṇi / Mahendra Bhānāvata.

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Udayapura : Goyala Bradarsa, 1982.

1982

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Reading the skin : adornment, display and society among the Wahgi / Michael O'Hanlon.

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London : Published for the Trustees of the British Museum by British Museum Publications, c1989.

1989

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Umudioka : an identity of vital angles of ancient Igbo wisdom / Joseph Chukwu Maduekwe.

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[Enugu?] : Swell Publishers, [1991 or 1992].

1991-1992

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 92-826Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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al-Shulūkh : aṣluhā wa-waẓīfatuhā fī Sūdān Wādī al-Nīl al-Awsaṭ / Yūsuf Faḍl Ḥasan.

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[al-Kharṭūm]: Dār Jāmiʻat al-Kharṭūm, 1976.

1976

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Tattoo, torture, mutilation, and adornment : the denaturalization of the body in culture and text / Frances E. Mascia-Lees and Patricia Sharpe, editors.

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Albany : State University of New York Press, c1992.

1992

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Mutilações étnicas dos Manjacos / por Artur Martins de Meireles.

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Bissau : Centro de Estudos da Guiné Portuguesa, 1960.

1960

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Kaiapó : Amazonia : the art of body decoration / edited by Gustaaf Verswijver ; contributing authors, Viviane Baeke, Terence Turner, Lux Vidal.

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Tervuren : Royal Museum for Central Africa ; Gent : Snoeck-Ducaju & Zoon, c1992.

1992

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Kipará : dibujo y pintura dos formas EMBERA de representar el mundo / Astrid Ulloa.

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Bogotá : Centro Editorial, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 1992.

1992

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Die Kunst der Frauen : zur Komplementarität von Nacktheit und Maskierung bei den Ejagham im Südwesten Kameruns / Ute Röschenthaler.

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Berlin : Verlag fur Wissenschaft und Bildung, 1993.

1993

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Le vêtement incarné : les métamorphoses du corps / France Borel.

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[Paris] : Calmann-Lévy, c1992.

1992

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Corps sublimes / Christiane Falgayrettes-Leveau.

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Paris : Musée Dapper, 1994.

1994

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Breaking the beadstrings : a long poem / Steve Chimombo.

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Zomba, Malawi : WASI Publications, 1995.

1995

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FormatTextCall numberSc C 95-215Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Decorated skin : a world survey of body art / Karl Gröning ; [texts by Ferdinand Anton ... et al. ; translated from the German by Lorna Dale].

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London : Thames & Hudson, c1997.

1997

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Color full pain : tattoo piercing / Walter Kehr.

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New York : Universe ; distributed to the U.S. trade by St. Martin's Press, 1997.

1997

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Stigmata [videorecording] : the transfigured body / by Leslie Asako Gladsjø.

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New York : Women Make Movies [distributor], 1992, c1991.

1992-1991

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Ritual body art : drawing the spirit / Charles Arnold.

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Custer, Wash. : Phoenix Pub., c1996

1996

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Body bizarre, body beautiful / Nan McNab ; design by David Altheim.

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New York : Simon & Schuster, 2001.

2001

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Return of the tribal : a celebration of body adornment : piercing, tattooing, scarification, body painting / Rufus C. Camphausen.

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Rochester, Vt. : Park Street Press, c1997.

1997

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Body decoration : a world survey of body art / Karl Gröning ; texts by Ferdinand Anton ... [et al.].

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New York : Vendome Press : Distributed in the USA and Canada by Rizzoli, 1998.

1998

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FormatTextCall numberJFG 00-1444Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Mezzanine

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The body aesthetic : from fine art to body modification / edited by Tobin Siebers.

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Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2000.

2000

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Modern primitives : the recurrent ritual of adornment.

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London : Institute for Cultural Research, c2000.

2000

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The art and ritual of the Moba of Northern Togo / by Christine Mullen Kreamer.

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1986.

1986

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The patterned skin : ethnic scarification in developing Ghana / by Christiana Oware Knudsen.

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Højbjerg, Denmark : Intervention Press ; Brooklyn, N.Y. : Distributed in North America by Smyrna Press, c2000.

2000

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 01-904Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Skin and ink [videorecording] : artists and collectors / produced, directed and edited by Barbara Attie, Nora Monroe, Maureen Wellner.

Moving image

New York, N.Y. : Distributed by Women Make Movies, 1990.

1990-1989

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Nuba personal art / [by] James C. Faris.

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London : Duckworth, 1972.

1972

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Signes d'identité : tatouages, piercings et autres marques corporelles / David Le Breton.

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Paris : Métailié, 2002.

2002

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al-Ḥinnāʼ : zīnat al-marʼah fī al-Khalīj / Ṣāliḥ Gharīb ; taqdīm ʻAlī al-Darūrah ; rusūm Mūzah al-Kūwārī.

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al-Dawḥah : Ṣ. Gharīb, 1998.

1998

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In the flesh : the cultural politics of body modification / Victoria L. Pitts.

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New York ; Houndmills, England : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

2003

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