ANTH 100A Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Religious Art, Rinpoche, Joseph Banks
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November 4 on beauty anthro 100 4737 words. On thursday we will explore sex and gender, but today let"s think about beauty. Not an easy task for beauty has no parameters, and no obvious definition. It"s not something we can describe, and yet in its presence nothing is more obvious to our eyes. Perhaps a pokot girl from kenya slavered with oil and ochre, wearing a collar woven from plants that announces her status as woman ready for marriage. Or is it best personified by this afar nomad from the danakil desert of. Ethiopia, one of the harshest environments of the world. If an afar warrior wants her hand in marriage he must first present her with the severed testicles of his enemy. My point of course is that beauty is not a western invention; the dance of attraction is not ours alone.
