Yesterday I mentioned cultures and “bergie-culture” specifically. All known cultures dress the body by some means. It can be through clothing tattooing, cosmetics, even in the case of bergies; scars and informal “zombie (rubber) tattooing.” This informal tattooing can be obtained through warming a needle and then pricking the shape or words out with the needle on your skin. At that time a “zombie arm band” or piece of plastic is melted slowly. The drops of melt plastic flows in the shape of the tattoo that is carved with the warm needle in your skin. (Examples of "zombie Tattoo's below)
(West Cape News, 2010)
Most cultures leave the body adorned and decorated, this is how some bergies do it.
(Entwistle, 2000:1)
Before we get to know or speak to a person, we can essentially figure out in which culture they belong and participate in. E.g. there is a clear difference how a Afrikaner boer dress his/her body in comparison with a Goth… Therefore dress is a powerful representation of one’s culture and identity.
Entwistle, J. 2000. Chapter 1. Addressing the Body. In: The Fashioned Body. Cambridge: Polite Press
WEST CAPE NEWS (2010). Juvenile criminals fall through chasm of state ineptitude. [Online image] Available from: http://westcapenews.com/?p=1706. [Accessed 07/10/10].
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