Tulasi Srinivas
Professor of anthropology and author of The Goddess in the Mirror: An Anthropology of Beauty (Duke UP, 2025), specializing in ethnographic studies of religion, culture, and urban life in Bangalore.
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Mar 26, 2026 • 52min
Tulasi Srinivas, "The Goddess in the Mirror: An Anthropology of Beauty" (Duke UP, 2025)
Tulasi Srinivas, an anthropologist of religion and urban life, explores contemporary beauty parlors in Bangalore as sites of social life and meaning. She discusses how salons connect technology, mythology, and gender through stories of goddesses and ethical practice. Conversations cover methods, class and caste dynamics, and how beauty practices shape moral imaginaries.
