Hair: Its Power and Meaning in Asian Cultures Paperback - 1998
by Alf Hiltebeitel (Editor); Barbara D. Miller (Editor); Foreword by Gananath Obeyesekere
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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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- Title Hair: Its Power and Meaning in Asian Cultures
- Author Alf Hiltebeitel (Editor); Barbara D. Miller (Editor); Foreword by Gananath Obeyesekere
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 314
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher State University of New York Press, Albany
- Date May 1998
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780791437421 / 0791437426
- Weight 0.92 lbs (0.42 kg)
- Dimensions 8.84 x 5.87 x 0.7 in (22.45 x 14.91 x 1.78 cm)
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Ethnic Orientation: Asian - General
- Library of Congress subjects Asia - Social life and customs, Hair - Social aspects - Asia
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97-27147
- Dewey Decimal Code 391.509
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