Word: camphausen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have latched on to the "neotribal" look, an amalgam of facial tattoos, piercings and "native" hairdos, and jewelry that borrows from cultures from the South Pacific to the Amazon. Much of this serves the same countercultural function that long hair did in the '60s, observes Rufus Camphausen, an author based in the Netherlands who has written extensively on tribal customs. Says he: "These symbols are a way of saying, 'I don't belong to the supermarket society...
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