Download or read book Body Piercing and Identity Construction written by NA NA and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-01-31 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a fifteen year longitudinal cross-cultural analysis on the role of the body in identity construction process around the world, this analysis provides readers with a comparative theoretical exploration of piercing and other forms of body modification that international communities of defiance use to express their identity.