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256 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780231125024
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 17 September 2002
Description
"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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256 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780231125024
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 17 September 2002
Description
"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...