Star Team combines a functional language
syllabus with a communicative approach, enabling students to talk about
the things that interest them, and also to apply their language
acquisition to cultural themes and cross-curricular topics.
Star Team combines a functional language
syllabus with a communicative approach, enabling students to talk about
the things that interest them, and also to apply their language
acquisition to cultural themes and cross-curricular topics.
Book Description
All cultures everywhere have attempted to
change their body in an attempt to meet their cultural standards of
beauty, as well as their religious and or social obligations. In
addition, people modify and adorn their bodies as part of the complex
process of creating and re-creating their personal and social
identities. Body painting has probably been practiced since the
Paleolithic as archaeological evidence indicates, and the earliest
human evidence of tattooing goes back to the Neolithic with mummies
found in Europe, Central Asia, the Andes and the Middle East.
Adornments such as jewelry have been found in the earliest human graves
and bodies unearthed from five thousand years ago show signs of
intentional head shaping. It is clear that adorning and modifying the
body is a central human practice. Over 200 entries address the major
adornments and modifications, their historical and cross-cultural
locations, and the major cultural groups and places in which body
modification has been central to social and cultural practices. This
encyclopedia also includes background information on the some of the
central figures involved in creating and popularizing tattooing,
piercing, and other body modifications in the modern world. Finally,
the book addresses some of the major theoretical issues surrounding the
temporary and permanent modification of the body, the laws and customs
regarding the marking of the body, and the social movements that have
influenced or embraced body modification, and those which have been
affected by it. Entries include, acupuncture, amputation, Auschwitz,
P.T. Barnum, the Bible, body dysmorphic disorder, body piercing,
branding, breast augmentation and reduction, Betty Broadbent,
castration, Christianity, cross dressers, Dances Sacred and Profane,
Egypt, female genital mutilation, foot binding, freak shows, genetic
engineering, The Great Omi, Greco-Roman world, henna, infibulation,
legislation & regulation, lip plates, medical tattooing,
Meso-America, military tattoos, National Tattoo Association, nose
piercing, obesity, permanent makeup, primitivism, prison tattooing,
punk, rites of passage, scalpelling, silicone injections, Stalking Cat,
suspensions, tanning, tattoo reality shows, tattooing, Thailand,
transgender, tribalism.
"English Across Cultures: Cultures Across English : A Reader in Cross Cultural Communication"
The articles contained in this volume give a good overview about the main questions in the field of cross-cultural communication as well as language and culture. Particularly interesting is Platt's article about different communicative strategies in English-speaking Asian speech communities and Verschueren's paper about English as an object and medium of misunderstanding.