Hair : its power and meaning in Asian cultures / edited by Alf Hiltebeitel and Barbara D. Miller ; foreword by Gananath Obeyesekere
- Bib ID:
- 341873
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
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- Albany : State University of New York Press, c1998
- xvi, 297 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 0791437418 (alkaline paper) (hardback)
- 0791437426 (alkaline paper) (paperback)
- Full contents:
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- Foreword / Gananath Obeyesekere
- 1. Introduction: Hair Tropes / Alf Hiltebeitel
- 2. Hair and Society: Social Significance of Hair in South Asian Traditions / Patrick Ollvelle
- 3. Hairy Barbarians, Furry Primates, and Wild Men: Medical Science and Cultural Representations of Hair in China / Frank Dikotter
- 4. "Long Black Hair Like a Seat Cushion": Hair Symbolism in Japanese Popular Religion / Gary L. Ebersole
- 5. Bound Hair and Confucianism in Korea / Sarah M. Nelson
- 6. Politics of the Queue: Agitation and Resistance in the Beginning and End of Qing China / Weikun Cheng
- 7. Hair Like Snakes and Mustached Brides: Crossed Gender in an Indian Folk Cult / Alf Hiltebeitel
- 8. Living Ghosts: Long-Haired Destitutes in Colonial Hong Kong / James L. Watson
- 9. Cutting the Fringes: Public Hair at the Margins of Japanese Censorship Laws / Anne Allison
- 10. Cuts and Culture in Kathmandu / Julia J. Thompson.
- 11. The Disappearance of the Oiled Braid: Indian Adolescent Female Hairstyles in North America / Barbara D. Miller
- 12. Afterword: Hair Power / Barbara D. Miller.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Copyright:
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