The Modified View

Ashlyn

A discussion and discovery of cultural body modifications and their meanings/motivations from across the globe.

Episodes

  1. 06/15/2023

    Mayan Cranial Modification: MDM follow up

    Take a deeper look into the age-related body modifications of the Maya with the first permanent ritual babies undertake to become a complete person.  Support the show twitter: @TheModifiedView

    9 min

  2. 01/05/2023

    Mayan Dental Modification

    Dive into this exploration of Mayan culture and body conceptualization through the discussion of dental modification. Sources:  Tiesler, V., Lozada, M. C., & Scherer, A. K. (2018). Head Shaping and Tooth Modification Among the Classic Maya of the Usumacinta River Kingdoms. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. Geller, Pamela L. 2006 Altering Identities: Body Modification and the Pre-Columbian Maya. In Social Archaeology of Funerary Remains, Oxford: Oxbow Books.  Houston, Stephen D., David Stuart, and Karl Taube, 2006, The Memory of Bones: Body, Being, and Experience among the Classic Maya. University of Texas Press, Austin. Serafin, Masson, M. A., Peraza Lope, C., Kennett, D. J., & George, R. J. (2022). Social Identity and Dental Modification at the Postclassic Maya Urban Centre of Mayapan. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 32(1), 117–135. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774321000342 https://www.britannica.com/topic/Maya-people https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MFKy7DJsCY&ab_channel=NationalGeographic Support the show twitter: @TheModifiedView

    26 min

  3. 06/20/2022

    Chinese Foot Binding

    A quick guide to understanding this highly politicized form of body modification. Sources:          Berger, E., Yang, L., & Ye, W. (2019). Foot binding in a Ming dynasty cemetery near Xi’an, China. International Journal of Paleopathology, 24, 79–88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpp.2018.09.005         Brown, M. J., & Satterthwaite-Phillips, D. (2018). Economic correlates of footbinding: Implications for the importance of Chinese daughters’ labor. PloS One, 13(9), e0201337–e0201337. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0201337        Ko, Dorothy. (2020). Footbinding and Anti-footbinding in China: The Subject of Pain in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries. In Discipline and the Other Body (pp. 215–243). Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822387930-009         Bossen, L., Xurui, W., Brown, M. J., & Gates, H. (2011). Feet and Fabrication: Footbinding and Early Twentieth-Century Rural Women’s Labor in Shaanxi. Modern China, 37(4), 347–383. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23053328        Silberstein, Rachel. (2020). A Fashionable Century: Textile Artistry and Commerce in the Late Qing. The University of Washington Press.  https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/nsong/hd_nsong.htm  https://www.britannica.com/place/China/The-Song-dynasty  https://www.britannica.com/topic/Ming-dynasty-Chinese-history  https://www.britannica.com/place/China/Qing-society    Support the show twitter: @TheModifiedView

    15 min
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A discussion and discovery of cultural body modifications and their meanings/motivations from across the globe.

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  • Creator
    Ashlyn
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2023
  • Episodes
    3
  • Rating
    Clean
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