Social Research articles from March 2000

Social Research archives from March 2000

Editor's Introduction.
March 22, 2000... At first glance the subject of this issue might puzzle readers. Why is this journal, which typically organizes issues on topics such as "Democracy," "The Decent Society," or even on "Hope and Despair," organizing an issue on "Faces," a subject...

Lincoln's Smile: Ambiguities of the Face in Photography.
March 22, 2000... Ah! what tales might those pictures tell if their mute lips had the power of speech. Walt Whitman, 1846 WHITMAN'S fancy that photographed faces have tales to tell seems to have gone the way of kindred tropes of authenticity, swept out...

The Metonymous Face.
March 22, 2000... The face is produced only when the head ceases to be part of the body, when it ceases to be coded by the body, when it ceases to have a multidimensional, polyvocal corporeal code--when the body, head included, has been decoded and has to be...

Wearing the Mask Inside Out.
March 22, 2000... IN American Notes, Charles Dickens describes his visit to the Perkins Institution for the Blind in Boston, praising its comfort and humane teaching methods. Enraptured by the children's happy faces, he writes: It is strange to watch...

Proust's Nose.
March 22, 2000... IN 1889, there appeared an article in the Archives Israelites in which the author chastised those Jews who tried too hard to fit into mainstream French society by Frenchifying their names and downplaying their ethnic background. While such...

The Making of the Modern Face: Cosmetic Surgery.
March 22, 2000... On November 11, 1960, Rod Serling invited CBS viewers to join him in The Twilight Zone. The episode that aired that night--"The Eye of the Beholder"--begins as Patient 307 (later identified as Miss Janet Tyler), her head swathed in gauze, waits...

The Mythology of the Face-lift.
March 22, 2000... FACE-LIFTS, and surgical procedures to make the face look younger, are nothing new. Medical techniques that have made them a reality are fairly recent, but mythological texts spanning many centuries and many cultures (from ancient India to...

In the Absence of the Face.
March 22, 2000... ... There is no God save Him. Everything will perish save His Face. Surah al-Qasas Chapter "The Story" -- The Qur'an ... Because Utterance is not like Visual Observation:... So that when the Prophet described the blessings of the...

Relations Between the Face and the Self as Revealed by Neurological Loss: The Subjective Experience of Facial Difference(*).
March 22, 2000... Introduction: Exploring the Seam The body has an obstructive effect on the soul. We are aware of this phenomenon in ourselves, when we prick ourselves with a needle or some sharp instrument: the effect is such that we cannot think of...

Consistency and Individual Differences in Facial Attractiveness Judgements: An Evolutionary Perspective.
March 22, 2000... Introduction DARWINIAN approaches to the study of facial attractiveness are based on the premise that attractive faces are a biological "ornament" that signals valuable information to a potential mate. Evolutionary approaches to...

Primate Faces and Facial Expressions(*).
March 22, 2000... SIMILARITIES between humans and non-human primates have intrigued people since ancient times. In fact, morphological, behavioral, and genetic evidence confirms that we are indeed close relatives. The morphological evidence includes similarities...