...This book explores the gendered and racialized ideology of emotions represented in images of beauty by focusing on transnational circulations of beauty ideals throughout different historical periods in Indonesia. More specifically, it explains how transnational circulations of beauty ideals help...

.... As a sign of his engagement with the material forms of the world he inhabits, Kajii, like John Keats, celebrates and seeks things of beauty. This chapter first discusses Kajii's aesthetics in terms of his material relationship to things by pointing out that “things” should be understood in dynamic rather...

... and feelings find expression through their hair. There are close connections between the spirit (tama) and robes and hair, which function as keepsakes (katami) of the person to whom they belong. Beauty in the Genji is not located in the physical features...

...This chapter discusses the role of beauty in the Japanese Buddhist women’s healing activities. Beauty is the center of the Japanese women’s practices and locus of their healing. Indeed, the highly ritualized and aestheticized dimensions of Japanese culture are brought together in their way...

... citizenship not only in the military, but also in the marketplace, and how they were affected by the statehood debate. It also explores the link between prewar and postwar notions of beauty as they relate to the social construction of “whiteness.” ethnic press Great Depression Hawaii Herald Hawaii Hochi...

... in considering passages from the sutras and doing zazen. This chapter also considers Dōgen's disdain for the power of beauty and his insistence that people should “ignore any discussions” of literary arts, poetry, and the like. Given his way of thinking, Dōgen soon came to disapprove...

...This chapter describes the use of Ka Moʻolelo o Hiʻiakaikapoliopele: Ka wahine i ka lā, ka uʻi palekoki uila o Halemaʻumaʻu (The Epic Tale of Hiʻiakaikapoliopele: Woman of the Sunrise, Lightning-skirted Beauty of Halemaʻumaʻu) as the text for a course entitled “United States...

... of illness, loss, and anguish. Their rituals include chanting, ingesting elixirs and consecrated substances, and contemplative approaches that elevate cleaning, cooking, child-rearing, and caring for the sick and dying into spiritual disciplines. Creating beauty is central to domestic Zen and figures...

...—a hybrid of Western and Japanese notions of beauty and femininity that linked the ethnic group to the homeland and mainstream U.S. culture. By focusing on the marketing of whiteness that connected the old world and new, the book reveals the dynamic commercial and cultural environment that underwrote...

... that placed emphasis on health, hygiene and beauty, self-improvement, and self-fulfillment. This chapter considers how commodity consumption enabled the fashionista and the housewife-and-mother to transform themselves and at the same time improve domestic life. advertisements beauty products cinema...

... in response to battlefield injuries, became enormously popular during the 1950s. Drawing upon the extensive discussions of new beauty practices in the popular press, news weeklies, and influential women’s magazines, this essay situates the 1950s “boom” in cosmetic surgery within a longer history of concern...

... as reference points for ideals of affluence and beauty, but act as markers of prestige in competitions for status between neighbours and kin, sustaining a sense of Amerikano superordinancy. While, on Siquijor, superordinancy usually presumes neither innate nor moral superiority...

... epic poem Ramayana, the chapter stresses the importance of color hierarchy even before European colonization and explains how it was articulated through affective vocabularies attached to notions of beauty. It argues that the conflation between lightness and light skin as desirable...

...This chapter examines the shifts in beauty ideals in Indonesia during the colonial period by focusing on the emergence of two categories of whiteness: “European whiteness” and “Japanese whiteness.” It explains how circulations of people and ideas from the Netherlands and Japan gave rise...

...In Indonesia, light skin color has been desirable throughout recorded history. This book explores Indonesia's changing beauty ideals and traces them to a number of influences: first to ninth-century India and some of the oldest surviving Indonesian literary works; then, a thousand years later...

...This chapter examines the development of a vocabulary of aesthetics in Japan during the Meiji period. It was during the early Meiji period (1868–1912) that the notion of “fine arts” in the Western sense of the word took hold in Japan, at the same time that the idea of “beauty” underwent...

... to cope with various emotional and psychological needs as they respond to the inevitable challenges of human existence such as love, loss, birth and death, and the longing to belong. The book also discusses the healing power of beauty as an integral component of domestic Zen, along with the concept...

..., are transformed in a meaningful way. This chapter discusses the ten principles of the Way of healing paradigm, namely: experiencing interrelatedness, living body–mind, engaging in rituals, nurturing the self, enjoying life, creating beauty, cultivating gratitude, accepting reality as it is, expanding perspective...

...This chapter maps the relationship between expressive practices and femininity, focusing on the performative presentation of femininity through dance and, particularly, the Miss Cook Islands beauty pageant. This beauty competition and others like it display the contradictions inherent in performing...

... as a standard of feminine beauty proved to be both empowering and limiting for Japanese Americans. assimilation contests electrical appliances ethnic press furniture Issei Japan Japanese American racism standard of living Takemune Sakae University of Hawaii Nisei students at Westernization...