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Samuel E. Novacich

Lecturer

Appointments

Lecturer

Area of Expertise

Brazil,

Semiotics,

Aesthetics,

Photography,

Race,

Gender,

Makeup

Education

BA Brown University

MPhil City University of NY

PhD City University of NY

Publications

2026 (forthcoming) "Standing Out, Blending In: Contrast, Uniformity, and Competing Visions of Modernity" (under review with the Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology)

2023 "Images of Beauty: Making Up and Making Over in Brazil." Current Anthropology, 64(5): 615 – 619.

2022 "Makeup and Marquinha: Aesthetics of the Bodily Surface in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil" in Embodying the Periphery, University of California eScholarship and University of Florence Press.

2021 "'Masking' Makeup: Cosmetics and Constructions of Race in Rio de Janeiro." Cultural Anthropology, 36(4): 681 – 707.

 

Contact

Samuel.E.Novacich@dartmouth.edu
Silsby, Room 316
HB 6047

Departments

Anthropology

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