Samuel E. Novacich

Selected 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.