THE GOOD, THE BEAUTIFUL AND THE UGLY: CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION OF CORPORAL BEAUTY IN MACEDONIAN TRADITIONAL CULTURE
Keywords:
body, beauty, Macedonia, oral folk tradition, socio-biology, anthropology, ethnologyAbstract
Combining socio-biological, anthropological and philosophical theoretic approaches with ethnographic data from the region of Macedonia, this article tries to detect the relevant criteria for evaluation of corporal beauty in the frames of Macedonian traditional culture.
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