MODIFICAÇÃO CORPORAL: o corpo como forma de comunicação das “tribos” primitivas e contemporâneas

Abstract

This work seeks to analyze bodily change throughout the history of humanity, how the body is used as a form of communication in primitive and contemporary “tribes”. Due to the growing number of followers of this practice, this study is necessary to understand how these expressions have given new meaning to their way of communicating over time and created subcultures. The proposed objective of this research is to discover how the practice of body modification by an individual or social group can be used as a way of communicating, and what impact or noise these messages interfere with the social interaction of these people. For this study, bibliographical research will be used, searching for sources of information available in books, articles, theses and dissertations. In this way, it provides a basis and argumentative construction for the topic. The study proved that our body, throughout history, has been used as a form of language, where all culture is built from it, through attributes, gestures, evaluations and clothing. And body change is a way of communicating with society, saying whether or not you are part of a certain group.