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Hair - whether present or absent, restored or removed, abundant or scarce, long or short, bound or unbound, colored or natural - marks a person as clearly as speech, clothing, and smell. While hair's high salience as both sign and symbol extends cross-culturally through time, its denotations are far from universal. Hair is an inter-disciplinary look at the meanings of hair, hairiness, and hairlessness in Asian cultures, from classical to contemporary contexts.
The contributors draw on a variety of literary, archaeological, religious, and ethnographic evidence. They examine scientific, medical, political, and popular cultural discourses. Topics covered include monastic communities and communities of fashion, hair codes and social conventions of rank, attitudes of enforcement and rebellion, and positions of privilege and destitution.
Different interpretations include hair as a key aspect of female beauty, of virility, as obscene, as impure, and linked with other symbolic markers in bodily, social, political, and cosmological constructs.
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Hair, Hairstyles, History, Ornamental hairwork, Social life and customs, Asia, study and teaching, Cheveux, Aspect érotique, Coiffures (Cheveux), Histoire, Objets en cheveux, Mœurs et coutumes, HEALTH & FITNESS, Beauty & Grooming, Erotic aspects, Social aspects, Manners and customsPlaces
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Hair: its power and meaning in Asian cultures
1998, State University of New York Press, SUNY Press
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0791437418 9780791437414
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Hair : Its Power and Meaning in Asian Cultures
May 1998, State University of New York Press
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0791437426 9780791437421
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