Erotic Capital as Societal Elevator: Pursuing Feminine Attractiveness in the Contemporary Mongolian Global(ising) Economy

Moral Economic Transitions in the Mongolian Borderlands

“…In the media, Mongolia was dubbed 'Mine-golia' and the country became self-reflexively fixated on the clash between the perceived old, 'traditional' pastoral lifestyle and the new, emergent, mining-driven modernity. 2 Here, in sharp contrast to my previous experience, the nightlife of Ulaanbaatar was characterized by luxury rooftop parties, art and theatre openings; I spent my fieldwork, on account of my interest, in plastic surgery clinics (Waters 2016).…”

Beauty: What Makes Us Dream, What Haunts Us

“…Despite this, beauty markets remain highly fragmented, such that for global beauty entrepreneurs it is the “persistence of local differences, not the homogenization of global preferences, [that] is most striking” (Jones 2010, 3). Ethnographies have shown how young people in villages and small towns across the world dream of partaking in the “global” world of beauty by shaping their bodies and consuming beauty products and services with different results and significations (e.g., Taussig 2012; Waters 2016). But they have also shown that, in some settings, norms of gendered beauty seem diametrically opposed to and seemingly unaffected by the global beauty industry (Popenoe 2004; Turner 2017).…”

Honesty in Indonesian Literature: Its Social and Cultural Factors

“…In Hakim's theory (2011), a person's face constitutes the photogenic element of his erotic capital. With the erotic capital (Hakim, 2011, Green 2008, Take & Adekoya, 2012, Waters, 2016 a man or woman may also influence people's view of his or her honesty. A man or woman with a big erotic capital can readily gain more trust from other people.…”