ANTH 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Radiance, Rhinoplasty, Consumerism
10 Apr 2014
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History: a hype in the 1990s, a movement that started unanticipated, with self-help groups of women trying to support each other following the rules . Fun-fact: ellen fein filed for divorce in 2000, but re-married in 2008, according to herself having attracted her new husband by following the rules. What it not means to judge it aesthetically! We must for the purpose of a thick description suspend our inclination to dismiss the book as reactionary , shallow , stupid , out of date . Or better, we must reflect on that inclination and explain its appearance, for we as anthropologist we cannot suppress our subjectivity. The answer lies, i believe, in the sense of dating both as a general human phenomenon and as a specific cultural practice. Generally, dating is situated in the domain of courtship, mating and reproduction, a domain that is as universal as it gets among humans.
