Beauty and the Beast
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The celebrated anthropologist and author of The Corn Wolf examines the Colombian culture of plastic surgery and its surprising relationship to violence.
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Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Colombia, Michael Taussig scrutinizes the 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 individualโs beauty with their often-overlooked counterparts, surgeries performedโoften on high profile criminalsโto disguise oneโs identity. Exploring this global phenomenon through Colombiaโs economic, cultural, and political history, Taussig links the countryโs long civil war and history of torture to the beauty industry at large, sketching Colombia as a country whose high aesthetic stakes make it a staging ground for some of the most important and problematic ideas about the body.
Central to Taussigโs examination is George Batailleโs notion ofย depense, or โwasting.โ While depense is often used as a critique, Taussig also looks at its position as a driving economic force. Depense, he argues, is precisely what these procedures are 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,ย Beauty and the Beastย is a true-to-place ethnography that tells a layered story about the lengths to which people will go to be physically remade.
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Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Colombia, Michael Taussig scrutinizes the 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 individualโs beauty with their often-overlooked counterparts, surgeries performedโoften on high profile criminalsโto disguise oneโs identity. Exploring this global phenomenon through Colombiaโs economic, cultural, and political history, Taussig links the countryโs long civil war and history of torture to the beauty industry at large, sketching Colombia as a country whose high aesthetic stakes make it a staging ground for some of the most important and problematic ideas about the body.
Central to Taussigโs examination is George Batailleโs notion ofย depense, or โwasting.โ While depense is often used as a critique, Taussig also looks at its position as a driving economic force. Depense, he argues, is precisely what these procedures are 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,ย Beauty and the Beastย is a true-to-place ethnography that tells a layered story about the lengths to which people will go to be physically remade.
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Michael Taussig is the Class of 1933 Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. He is the author of many books, includingI Swear I Saw This, Walter Benjaminโs Grave, and My Cocaine Museum, all published by the University of Chicago Press.
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