Anthropology 2263A/B Study Guide - Final Guide: Body Politic, Asteroid, Bioarchaeology
23 Apr 2016
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Edmonds - the poor have the right to be beautiful. Dr. pitanguy - pend up plastic surgery clinics for the poor. State is shrinking, there is less health care, human rights are priveleges for bandits", but a right to be beautiful is celebrated. Growing inequality in brazil, but more plastic surgery. Re ection of social issues - beauty practices offer a means to compete in a neoliberal system. Doctor didn"t want to perform surgery on denise - she was too overweight - until it was said that her self-esteem was low . Plastica"s key legitimating concept - self esteem. Early 20th century - beauty becomes linked to the psyche. This option is pushed to it"s inclusion in brazil, where beauty surgeries are done for peoples self esteem. Lot"s of different reactions to surgery - depression, elation. Her principal illness is poverty - surgery is addressing social problems.
