Shivani Kaul: No More ‘Full Moon Faces’ Appearance and Social Change among Young Women in Matrilineal Bhutan, 8 May 2018 from ict class 8 Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 52 min 49 sec
✓ Published: 11-Jun-2018

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Talk given to the Radical Anthropology Group at Daryll Forde Seminar Room, Anthropology Building, 14 Taviton Street, London WC1H 0BW on 8 May 2018. Anthropologists have recently explored changes in ideal body size among young American women, confirming what psychologists suggest is an influential 'thinness schema' of female beauty internalized through images of women in film, TV and print media. But is the causal relationship between mass media representations and female beauty exaggerated as th