Consumo, corpo e poder: uma análise das práticas da body modification

Abstract

The present work aims to understand the constant transformations of the body in the social environment to which it is inserted, in order to try to understand how social practices and the influence of the media are capable of shaping the individual in society. In this sense, the present article is based on an analysis of the body in Western history and, secondly, on a sociological and anthropological analysis of the body in Brazil, especially during periods of intense repression of the body, such as the period of the military dictatorship, through an anthropological and legal analysis. In the third chapter, we will analyze the body transformations known as extreme, in particular the practice of eyeball tattoo, a procedure in which ink is injected of the color chosen by the person in the space between the conjunctiva and the sclera, thus pigmenting the white part of the eyes. In this sense, the body represents an object reconfigurable according to the demands and influences of the society to which the individual is inserted