How infants grow mothers in North London

Article Abstract:

In a certain area of North London, mothers of new infants appear to move from identification with the child to autonomy. They are very interested in that which is natural, and start out with a kind of healthy narcissism, which gradually goes away as they separate from the child in a number of stages in a kind of rebirthing. As each stage is exposed in contradiction to create the foundation for the next, profundity grows. Shopping and social groups are focused on, from the anthropological research point of view, which is contrasted to the point of view of psychoanalysis.

Psychological aspects, Attachment (Psychology), Bonding (Psychology), Mother and infant, Mother-infant relations

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The self as image: a critical appraisal of postmodern theories of fashion

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This article contrasts postmodern and functionalist critiques of fashion. Topics addressed include the functionalists' presupposition of a 'natural' identity, limits of the postmodernists' reduction of self-identity to image, and privileging the spectacle of appearance over other sources of identity formation.

Analysis, Women, Advertising, Fashion, Feminist criticism, Women in advertising, Postmodernism

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An essential marking: Maori tattooing and the properties of identity

Article Abstract:

Issues in cultural identity and cultural property are discussed, focusing on the appropriation and authenticity of contemporary Maori tattoos. The author theorizes the Maori tattoo within the context of Western concepts such as property, personal signatures, identifying marks, and cultural authority.

New Zealand, Maoris, Tattooing

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