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Introduction to an Every Day Living in Contemporary Gothic
The sensibility of contemporary gothic, changing our attitudes to such diverse areas as the nature of the arts, the meaning…
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Original Darkness: Style and spirituality in Goth Subculture
This article provides an ethnographic account of Goth subculture within a major metropolitan city in the northeastern United States of…
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Tattooing, Tattoo Collectors and Tattooists as Deviants
This article looks at two groups within the most elite realm of tattooing, tattoo collectors and tattooists, and identifies how…
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Body Modifications: Cultural Construction of the Inscribed
Inscriptions on the body, especially tattoo, scarification, and body paint, have been part of ethnographic literature since before the birth…
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Sexual Bondage Deviances, Domination and Submission
The definitions, beliefs, practices and the importance of consent within the Leather and Bondage, Domination, Sadomasochism communities.
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Gothic Art Architecture, Painting, Sculpture Across Europe
Gothic art, being exclusively religious art, lent powerful tangible weight to the growing power of the Church in Rome. This…
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Fashion Revivals as Time Travel and “Spectacular Subcultures”
Subcultural identity in the twenty-first century is best understood when situated within the larger discourse of the postmodern, and despite…
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Neo-Victorian Tattooing in a Most Sincere Fashion, Darker and Richer
As the popularity of Victorian iconographies grew, it is unsurprising that the trend would be reflected in tattoo habits, and…
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Female Sensuality in Contemporary Victorian Fashion
This article focuses on the use of the corset and the practice of tight-lacing as visual and ideological shorthand in…
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Neo-Victorian Fashion Revivals and Subcultures
The fact remains that while some subcultures around the world have taken to wearing forms of neo-Victorian clothing, it is…
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The Ghosts in Scottish Tourism and Other Haunts
The history of Scotland as a prime tourist location. Its landscapes, cityscapes, and habitations interpretatively haunted over the last two…
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Stratification: Body Modifications in Modern Society
It is estimated that twenty-four percent of Americans between the ages of 18 and 50 years-old have tattoos, while fourteen…
