Beauty and the Beast

Name: Beauty and the Beast
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ISBN: 9780226789866

ISBN-10: 0226789861

ISBN-13: 9780226789866

Edition: 2012

Authors: Michael Taussig

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Beauty and the Beast begins with the question: Is beauty destined to end in tragedy? Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Colombia, Michael Taussig scrutinizes the anxious, audacious, and sometimes destructive attempts people make to transform their bodies through cosmetic surgery and liposuction. He balances an examination of surgeries meant to enhance an individual’s beauty with an often overlooked counterpart, surgeries performed—often on high profile criminals—to disguise one’s identity. Situating this globally shared phenomenon within the economic, cultural, and political history of Colombia, Taussig links the country’s long civil war and its bodily mutilation and torture to the beauty…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 7/30/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English