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Beauty and the Beast by Taussig, Michael
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- 9780226789866
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Publication Year
- 2012
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.9in
- Genre
- Health & Fitness, Medical, Social Science
- Topic
- Beauty & Grooming, Surgery / Plastic & Cosmetic, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 192 Pages
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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 industry at large, sketching Colombia as a country whose high aesthetic stakes make it a stage where some of the most important and problematic ideas about the body are played out. Central to Taussig's examination is George Bataille's notion of depense , or "wasting." While depense is often used as a critique, Taussig also looks at the exuberance such squandering creates and its position as a driving economic force. Depense, he argues, is precisely what these procedures are all about, and the beast on the other side of beauty should not be dismissed as simple recompense. At once theoretical and colloquial, public and intimate, Beauty and the Beast is a true-to-place ethnography--written in Taussig's trademark voice--that tells a thickly layered but always accessible story about the lengths to which people will go to be physically remade.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
0226789861
ISBN-13
9780226789866
eBay Product ID (ePID)
110794574
Product Key Features
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Beauty & Grooming, Surgery / Plastic & Cosmetic, Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Publication Year
2012
Type
Textbook
Genre
Health & Fitness, Medical, Social Science
Number of Pages
192 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.9in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Gt499.T39 2012
Reviews
"Against the background of the enormous exploitation and torture of bodies in the course of the war, Michael Taussig, in Beauty and the Beast , seeks to unearth and understand the strange links between the practice of plastic surgery as the ultimate disguise of hunted men and the astonishingly widespread use of plastic surgery for beautification. But he pushes further than that, seeking new understanding of the extraordinary forms and importance of beauty in humans."--Alphonso Lingis, Pennsylvania State University, " Beauty and the Beast is an original work, surprising not only in its thesis but in its tone, pacing, and voice. It presents its case slowly and through digressions and returns, performing a way of theorizing through writing, training the reader to follow what's going on as an ethnographer does--how everything matters, how we should just see where it all goes, and how we shouldn't overdo it. Gripping, moving, and brilliant, Beauty and the Beast is fun to read and to think with. It punctures an apparatus, producing a great sigh of relief. It is a gift."--Katie Stewart, University of Texas at Austin, In Michael Taussig's latest work, Beauty and the Beast , he examines the plastic surgery culture of Colombia, where it is fueled by drug and war money. Fighters and kingpins get their faces redone to avoid arrest, and take their girlfriends to be reconfigured with silicone, lipo and a little chiseling. . . . Along the way, he writes about consumerism taking over culture, the flattening out of our ideas of what is beautiful, Marx and Engels, and the codpiece in police officers' riot gear., This is a highly readable text that in some instances seems itself to exemplify the principle of hybridity, combining a fair range of references to such writers as Benjamin, Lawrence, and Nietzsche, and to cultural movements, such as the baroque, with a studied casualness of tone and style: 'You really pay your dues with la lipo .' There is some inevitable repetition, as well as a hint of structural randomness--with comments on fashion, for example, flitting back and forth across the text but, in so doing, reflecting the point made about fashion's ubiquity. It is certainly a text that mirrors the theatricality and evanescence of its subject. . . . Taussig's style and tone may be 'cool,' but he communicates several sharp insights and startling connections, providing a perceptive and often original interpretation of the extraordinary pace of social change experienced in Colombia over the past 30 years., Taussig balances balletically above the salacious horror, his elegant commentary drawing on Baudelaire, Georges Bataille and Walter Benjamin. We can be sure that when Taussig is telling tales of the savage and exotic, he's talking about us, here, now, and what our crazy out-of-control economic system is doing to the rest of the world. There's no 'rest of' any more. That's what anthropology is for: the art or science that shows fish the water. Taussig is renowned as one of its dizziest dialectical conjurors. Reflecting on Wall Street's recent lack of 'libido'-he asks: 'Are there still people who think that money and sex are not the same?'-he provides delicious throwaways that can satisfy Darwinians and Foucauldians alike., "In Michael Taussig's latest work, Beauty and the Beast , he examines the plastic surgery culture of Colombia, where it is fueled by drug and war money. Fighters and kingpins get their faces redone to avoid arrest, and take their girlfriends to be reconfigured with silicone, lipo and a little chiseling. . . . Along the way, he writes about consumerism taking over culture, the flattening out of our ideas of what is beautiful, Marx and Engels, and the codpiece in police officers' riot gear." , Against the background of the enormous exploitation and torture of bodies in the course of the war, Michael Taussig seeks to unearth and understand the strange links between the practice of plastic surgery as the ultimate disguise of hunted men and the astonishingly widespread use of plastic surgery for beautification. But he pushes further than that, seeking new understanding of the extraordinary forms and importance of beauty in humans., Finally, anthropologist Michael Taussig offers a series of thought-provoking meditations on scenes from his fieldwork in Colombia. Theoretically and narratively beguiling--indeed, posed within the frame of the fairy tale--Taussig's work urges us to consider how beauty is produced in tandem with the economic devastation, agricultural exploitation, and ravages of the nation's long civil war., " Beauty and the Beast is an original work, surprising not only in its thesis but in its tone, pacing, and voice. It presents its case slowly and through digressions and returns, performing a way of theorizing through writing, training the reader to follow what's going on as an ethnographer does-how everything matters, how we should just see where it all goes, and how we shouldn't overdo it. Gripping, moving, and brilliant, Beauty and the Beast is fun to read and to think with. It punctures an apparatus, producing a great sigh of relief. It is a gift."--Katie Stewart, University of Texas at Austin , Taussig balances balletically above the salacious horror, his elegant commentary drawing on Baudelaire, Georges Bataille and Walter Benjamin. We can be sure that when Taussig is telling tales of the savage and exotic, he's talking about us, here, now, and what our crazy out-of-control economic system is doing to the rest of the world. There's no 'rest of' any more. That's what anthropology is for: the art or science that shows fish the water. Taussig is renowned as one of its dizziest dialectical conjurors. Reflecting on Wall Street's recent lack of 'libido'--he asks: 'Are there still people who think that money and sex are not the same?'--he provides delicious throwaways that can satisfy Darwinians and Foucauldians alike.
Publication Name
Beauty and the Beast
Table of Content
Author's Note The Gift of the Gods El Mexicano A Rare and Delightful Bird in Flight Winnypoo Spending Cool The Designer Smile The Designer Body Mythological Warfare Beauty and Mutilation The Exploding Breast Virtual U The History of Beauty History of the Shoe Surgeons of the Underworld The Designer Name Law in a Lawless Land The Tabooed Cleft The Fat Kid and the Devil Works Consulted Index
Copyright Date
2012
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lccn
2011-050372
Dewey Decimal
646.7
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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