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Lowe, Scott

 
9781628922868: Hair: Object Lessons
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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1628922869
ISBN 13 
9781628922868
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
152
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