Las modificaciones corporales como formas de expresión comunicativa

Abstract

In this article it is proposed to identify these forms of creative expression that underlie the bodily modifications, reflects on the communicative capacity that these practices have for both the subject that transforms the body and for society. For the analysis, identification and reflection of the capacity of these modifications, a review of different academic texts, information and comparisons can be made, the information can be structured as follows: 1. An approach to the concept of body and its Derivatives (body aesthetics, body modifications, body identity, communicative intention) 2. Body modifications (Prejudices and needs, modifications that break social schemes) 3. Historical course of the corporal modifications (the corporal modifications as a necessity, the body as a means Communication). Likewise, these analyzes are identified with the intention of communicative expression are the corporal modifications, the search of unique and individual identity, as well as the expression of the nonconformity and / or the resistance with the norms and the canons of beauty socially The stipulated ones, the expression of dreams, ideals, fears, stories, memories, ideologies and / or beliefs.