Female Body Damage and Decorative Behaviour from the Perspective of Semiotics

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10.2991/hss-17.2017.121How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Body damage, Decoration, Symbol, Feminism

Abstract

Decoration is one of the important parts in costume, among the various dress cultures of all nations in the world, the phenomenon of body as decoration is the most special one. Making a study on body damage and decorative behaviours of the ethnic minorities, we can learn the original living conditions of people, and understand the aesthetic standards and cultural connotations, and comprehend the gender differences in contemporary ethnic identity. In the view of Gender and Sociology, with the research method of literature analysis, this paper clarified the connotations through the female "pain" decoration actions, and analyzed the role and status of women in ethnic group and modern society.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Hui Tao
AU  - Wen-Jiao Li
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DA  - 2017/02
TI  - Female Body Damage and Decorative Behaviour from the Perspective of Semiotics
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 2nd International Conference on Humanities and Social Science (HSS 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 703
EP  - 708
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/hss-17.2017.121
DO  - 10.2991/hss-17.2017.121
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