Beauty and the Beast
- Contents
- Review Quotes

The Gift of the Gods
El Mexicano
A Rare and Delightful Bird in Flight
Winnypoo
Spending
Cool
The Designer Smile
The Designer Body
Mythological Warfare
Beauty and Mutilation
The Exploding Breast
Virtual U
The History of Beauty
History of the Shoe
Surgeons of the Underworld
The Designer Name
Law in a Lawless Land
The Tabooed Cleft
The Fat Kid and the Devil
Works Consulted
Index
“Beauty and the Beast is an original work, surprising not only in its thesis but in its tone, pacing, and voice. It presents its case slowly and through digressions and returns, performing a way of theorizing through writing, training the reader to follow what’s going on as an ethnographer does—how everything matters, how we should just see where it all goes, and how we shouldn’t overdo it. Gripping, moving, and brilliant, Beauty and the Beast is fun to read and to think with. It punctures an apparatus, producing a great sigh of relief. It is a gift.”--Katie Stewart, University of Texas at Austin
Anthropology: Cultural and Social Anthropology
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