ABOUT US
BOOKS
SUBJECTS
SERIES
PUBLISH WITH US
CONTACT
LOGIN
PROFILE
ORDERS
LOGOUT
0
vikramjain@sanctumbooks.com
×
x
x
LOGIN
PROFILE
ORDERS
LOGOUT
x
ABOUT US
BOOKS
SUBJECTS
SERIES
PUBLISH WITH US
CONTACT
Home:
Subjects:
Sociology & Anthropology
x
Front Cover
Back Cover
The Goddess in the Mirror: An Anthropology of Beauty (paperback)
Author:
Tulasi Srinivas
ISBN:
9789376545605
Binding:
Paperback
Year:
2026
Pages:
296 with 32 b/w illustrations
Size:
15 x 23 x 2 cm
Weight:
430 grams
Price:
INR
1095.00
About the Book
In
The Goddess in the Mirror
, Tulasi Srinivas offers a pathbreaking ethnography of contemporary Indian beauty parlors in Bangalore. Exploring the gendered world of beauty in the intimate spaces of the salon, whose popularity has exploded amid an urban tech revolution, Srinivas invites readers to consider what beauty is and what it does. Visiting diverse salons that cater to various classes, castes, and queer sexualities, she tracks the relationships between clients and workers, revealing the beauty industry’s painful political, religious, and economic stakes. Embodiment, religion, and narrative intersect as clients and beauticians tell well-known stories of beautiful Hindu goddesses, heroines, queens, and apsaras, thereby weaving their own ethical subjectivities every day. Following the goddess’s allure, radiance, woundedness, fluidity, and fertility, Srinivas situates ideas of beauty within a larger moral and political context where beauty is both a fleeting pursuit and a rich resource for navigating a patriarchal present.
About the Author
Tulasi Srinivas
Tulasi Srinivas is Professor of Anthropology, Religion, and Transnational Studies at Emerson College. She is the author of
The Cow in the Elevator: An Anthropology of Wonder
and
Winged Faith: Rethinking Religious Pluralism and Globalization through the Satya Sai Movement
, and the coeditor, with Krishnendu Ray, of
Curried Cultures: Globalization, Food, and South Asia
.
Customer Reviews
Books of related interest
The Goddess in the Mirror: An Anthropology of Beau...
Racism in Indian Country
Global Perspectives in Environmental Adult Educati...
Onscreen/Offscreen
Singing the Himalayan Crossroads: Traditional Song...
The Class Struggle and Welfare: Social Policy unde...
The Political Economy of Education in South Asia: ...
The Ethnography of Tantra: Textures and Contexts o...
Cosmopolitan Maternalisms: Migration, Kinship, and...
Origin and Growth of Satī in Early Medieval India:...
A Self-Study: Being a White Psychologist in an Ind...
Shelter for the Night: On Afghanistan, Language, a...
Wonder in South Asia: Histories, Aesthetics, Ethic...
European and Asian Sustainable Towns: New Towns an...
Tension: Mental Distress and Embodied Inequality i...
The Literary Thing: History, Poetry and the Making...
South Asian Technospaces
The Elephant and the Dragon in Contemporary Life S...
After The Last Ship: A Post-colonial Reconstructio...
Life at a Distance: Medicine and Nationalism in In...
Caste-Communal-Politics Nexus in Higher Education ...
Chinese Calcuttawallah: Articulating a Diaspora Et...
The Politics of Muslim Identities in Asia
South Asian Technospaces - Hardcover
Open Space Planning in India (Schweizer Asiatische...
Tsunami in Kerala, India: Long-Term Psychological ...
Intersecting Diaspora Boundaries: Portuguese Conte...
Colonial Indology: Sociopolitics of the Ancient In...
Anti-Christian Violence in India
Across the Color Line: Indians, Blacks, and Landsc...
Painting Stories: Lives and Legacies from an India...
The Life of Shariʿa: A Comparative Anthropology of...
Insecurities of Expulsion: Afro-Asian Entanglement...
Transmediterranean: Diasporas, Histories, Geopolit...
Against Heritage: The Reinvention of Traditional F...
The Literary Thing: History, Poetry and the Making...
Hinduism Against Caste
Brothers and Sisters in India: A Study of Urban Ad...
Motilal Tejawat: Life and Work
Indigenous Resurgence in the Contemporary Caribbea...
Scientific diasporas as development partners: Skil...
Migrant Epistemologies in Indian Nonfiction of the...
Indian Villages between Tradition and Transformati...
International Students at University: Understandin...
Automata: The Power of AI Integrated with Advanced...
Language in the Indian Diaspora: Sociolinguistic P...
Parasites, Worms, and the Human Body in Religion a...
The Future of Futurity: Affective Capitalism and P...
Rituals in an Unstable World: Contingency – Hybrid...
Against Heritage: The Reinvention of Traditional F...
Lived Religion, Representation, and Sikh Identity
The Dancer’s Voice: Performance and Womanhood in T...
Legislating Indian Country: Significant Milestones...
Female Militants in South Asia: Fighters and Facil...
ADD REVIEW
Review Title
Review
Reviewer Name
Email