Body Art and Ornamentation

Recently it seems to be becoming more and more popular, but many people decorate and change their bodies for various reasons. In the world, people decorate on the body, sometimes on the body, in order to determine social status, achievement or other personal gathering, to show that they are individuals themselves. They hurt, paint, pierce, shape and decorate their skin. These changes are how people portray their identities and the social groups they interact with. Each of these social groups has various forms of body art and decoration that represent various eras and events in their lives.

Permanent change of the body (teeth modification, scratches, limb injuries, tattoos, body piercings, other body art and decorations etc) is part of the human culture from the history, and with one person It serves as a tribe to distinguish. Tribe Lip penetration between Africa and the American tribe is a sign of social status. Vikings are decorated with teeth so that they look fearless and beautiful. Induced deformity of neonatal craniotomy is another example of these types of practice

African culture uses various methods to show off their body art and decoration, depending on the society they live in. These include: loading shells, teeth, or nails into their clothing or jewelry, wearing colored body paintings, exaggerating (ie stretching) (neck) features of a person, Measure the perforation of the ear and / or lips. Traces and tattoos. From other cultural perspectives, the various forms of African forms of body art and decoration are considered strange and different, I do not understand their importance in these African cultures. On the other hand, there are other cultures like Japan, but the exterior and decorations that depict their body arts hide it, so they can not be seen at all.

Any culture allows people to paint, pierce, tattoos, deformities, or simply not to decorate their body or not (Schildkrout, 2001). Throughout history, body art and decoration have become a global phenomenon and have played an important role in our life, but we do not seem to be able to dispel the social shame. The most frequently misunderstood and misunderstood is that the symbolism and importance of body art and decoration are not necessarily the same culturally. Western culture thinks that body art and decoration are related to mischief and rebellion but Japan and African culture uses it as a way to express spirituality and cultural expression. When the cave people draw on the walls of the cave, the existence of body art and decoration can go back more than 30,000 years