Hair: Object Lessons - Softcover

Lowe, Scott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1628922869 ISBN 13: 9781628922868

Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

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About how the manipulation of human hair holds fascinating symbolic meanings and provokes profound visceral impacts in all cultures of the world.

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Scott Lowe is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, USA, and Co-General Editor of Nova Religio.

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Hair, a primary marker of our mammalian nature, is an extraordinary indicator of economic and social standing, political orientation, religious affiliation, marital status, and cultural leanings, among other things. The meanings of hair are deep, powerful, and so strongly embedded in cultural conditioning that they are usually understood unconsciously (and all the more strongly for that). In untangling its myriad meanings, Scott Lowe reveals just how little we control our hair, no matter the style: each and every passer-by decides on its significance anew. From Hittites to hippies and Pentecostals to porn stars, Hair combs through a ubiquitous personal yet public object, a charged and carefully manged dead thing.

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• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1628922869
• ISBN 13: 9781628922868
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 152
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar