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The work surveys cross-cultural standards of female attractiveness, arguing that less complex societies tend to have narrower, culturally fixed ideals while more complex societies recognize a wider variety. It catalogs the physical traits various peoples prize—skin color, facial proportions, hair texture, body form—and examines corresponding practices of ornamentation and alteration, including tattooing and coloring, jewelry and dress, hair removal or styling, and deliberate bodily modification. Drawing on travel observations and comparisons, the author relates how preferences differ widely between groups and how adornment functions to enhance perceived beauty within particular cultural frameworks.

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Title: Indian types of beauty

Author: Robert W. Shufeldt

Release date: March 7, 2023 [eBook #70229]

Language: English

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INDIAN TYPES OF BEAUTY


—BY—


R. W. SHUFELDT,

Captain Medical Department, U.S. Army.


Member of the Philosophical, the Anthropological, the Biological, and the Entomological
Societies of Washington, D.C.; Member of the Cosmos, of Washington; Member of
the American Society, and Honorable Associate of the British Society for Psychical
Research; Member of the American Ornithologists’ Union; Member of the
American Society of Naturalists; Cor. Member Soc. Ital. Anthrop.
Ethnol. and Psicol. Comp. of Florence, Italy; Cor. Member of the
Zool. Soc. of London; Cor. Member Biol. Association of Colorado;
the Academy of Nat. Sciences of Philadelphia: of the Academy
of Sciences, Chicago; of the Linnæan Soc. of New
York; Member of the International Copyright League;
Member of the Anthropometrical Soc.; Member
of the American Association for the Advancement
of Science; Member American Society
of Anatomists, etc., etc.