Modern Primitives, written by V. Vale and Andrea Juno, is a RE/Search publications book about body modification, published in 1989.

The book consists of a collection of twenty two interviews and two essays with individuals and key figures involved in the field of body modification in the late 1980s.

It was one of the first documents to attempt to comprehensively cover the re-emergence and increasing popularity of tattooing, piercing, scarification, corsetry, sideshow, ritual and other practices in contemporary western society.

At the time of its publication, Modern Primitives was the first text to attempt to comprehensively address the issues, aesthetics and meaning involved in the subject of body modification.

In November 1989, police seized a copy of Moderns Primitives from London store The Book Inn, owned by bookseller Richard Waller.