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Ideal Beauty Across Cultures

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100 Ideals of Beauty as seen in cultures across the world

• Added on: Jul 8th, 2008
• Country: United States
• Language: English

• Author: ei
• Listed in: Culture Beauty
• Tags: art Culture woman beauty accessories ideal beauty

Recent Posts

• Byzantine Embroidery

  Posted on Friday December 11th, 2009 at 04:31

  Byzantine EmbroideryEmbroidery was a way for Byzantines among many other cultures, to decorate their clothing. The painstaking care taken in the fine and even stitches necessary to create an accomplished work of embroidery as well as the combination ...

• Lip Piercing- Tembeta

  Posted on Thursday December 10th, 2009 at 03:56

  Lip Piercing- TembetaIn the culture of some groups in modern day Chile, lip-piercing was a symbol of adulthood. Young men would have their lip pierced in a ceremony after which they would have attained manhood. From this point on they were able to fi...

• Tlingit and Haida Crest Tattoos

  Posted on Thursday October 1st, 2009 at 21:55

  The Tlingit and Haida of Alaska used body modification procedures including Tatooing and piercing in order to proclaim their status and clan affiliation. The ceremony of piercing the ears of noble children was an important occasion which called for t...

• The Traditional Chinese Beauty

  Posted on Sunday September 27th, 2009 at 21:04

  The Chinese word for beauty is seen in records as early as 11-16 BC and means “pleasant to the sight”. Internal virtue was also linked to the concept of beauty, with many traditional stories suggesting that external beauty is a reflection of mora...

• Ancient Greek, Horaios, Beauty as being age-appropriate

  Posted on Thursday September 24th, 2009 at 21:37

  In Koine Greek (popular form in 300BC-300AD), the word beauty, horaios, was connected to the word hora meaning time. The idea was that what was beautiful was appropriate for one’s own age, or being of one’s hour. The concept included the idea of ...

• The guitar-shaped body

  Posted on Tuesday July 7th, 2009 at 18:33

  Brazilian forms of beauty that spring immediately to mind are the painted and feathered extravaganzas Carnivale, and the salon-waxed, well-proportioned beach bums in bikinis. An exceedingly body-image concerned society with high rates of plastic surg...

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Gorgonzola Happiness

fascinating stuff - cross-cultural representation of beauty is an engaging and thoroughly worthwhile investigation


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G.

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