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Human branding or stigmatizing is the process by which a mark, usually a symbol or ornamental pattern, is burned into the skin of a living person, with the intention of the resulting scar making it permanent. This is performed using a hot or very cold branding iron.
Freeze branding requires longer periods of contact of up to one minute to create successful brands. Despite requiring a deviation from room temperature less than half that seen in hot branding, taking the branding iron to its cryogenic working temperature is a far more involved and time consuming process than that used in hot-iron branding.
Scarification involves scratching, etching, burning/branding, or superficially cutting designs, pictures, or words into the skin as a permanent body modification or body art. The body modification can take roughly 6–12 months to heal.
The branding iron consisted of an iron rod with a simple symbol or mark which was heated in a fire. After the branding iron turned red-hot, the cowhand pressed the branding iron against the hide of the cow. The unique brand meant that cattle owned by multiple owners could then graze freely together on the commons or open range.
Sexual immorality in colonial New England was also punished by human branding with a hot iron, by having the marks burned into the skin of the face or forehead for all to see. [22] A child wearing a dunce cap in class, from a staged photo c.1906
Skin marking may refer to: Scarifying, scratching, etching, burning / branding, or cutting designs, pictures, or words into the skin as a permanent body modification. Hyperkeratosis, a skin condition; Cutaneous condition, any of various skin conditions; Mole (skin marking), a benign tumor on human skin, usually with darker pigment; Tattoo; Body art
This began the modern practice now known as branding, where the consumers buy the brand instead of the product and rely on the brand name instead of a retailer's recommendation. The process of giving a brand "human" characteristics represented, at least in part, a response to consumer concerns about mass-produced goods. [57]
On the occasion of World Farm Animals Day, (Gandhi's birthday) 2 October 2012, two Israelis, Zohar Gorelik and Sasha Boojor, and one Russian Jewish activist, Oleg Ozerov, had the number 269 branded on their skin with a hot-iron branding tool. Haaretz reports that this branding was an act of fellowship with Calf 269. The branding incident took ...