ANT335H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Commoditization, Beauty, Plastic Surgery
Document Summary
Beauty culture and plastic surgery in brazil across a number of categories. Women from different classes are interested in plastic surgery and what meaning does that have in brazil. Used as an idiom to talk about their plastic surgery. Funded through public health system which creates a different understanding of plastic surgery. It is accessible to members who are not of the elite. Histories of understanding how the character and the body are related. Displaced understanding of people creating things onto the commodities. A fetish is an objedct that is invested with desire that people that displaced from other places. The female body is fragmented (cut up) and becomes a series of bodies that has desires attached to it displaced from elsewhere. Marx seeing commodities as a fetish; commoditization of female beauty. Mind body dualism is the belief that the mind and the body are two separate things. Looking at herself as defected after 7 of marriage.
