Title Hair : its power and meaning in Asian cultures / edited by Alf Hiltebeitel and Barbara D. Miller ; foreword by Gananath Obeyesekere

Published Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1998

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 297 pages) : illustrations Contents 1. Introduction: Hair Tropes / Alf Hiltebeitel 1 -- 2. Hair and Society: Social Significance of Hair in South Asian Traditions / Patrick Olivelle 11 -- 3. Hairy Barbarians, Furry Primates, and Wild Men: Medical Science and Cultural Representations of Hair in China / Frank Dikotter 51 -- 4. "Long Black Hair Like a Seat Cushion": Hair Symbolism in Japanese Popular Religion / Gary L. Ebersole 75 -- 5. Bound Hair and Confucianism in Korea / Sarah M. Nelson 105 -- 6. Politics of the Queue: Agitation and Resistance in the Beginning and End of Qing China / Weikun Cheng 123 -- 7. Hair Like Snakes and Mustached Brides: Crossed Gender in an Indian Folk Cult / Alf Hiltebeitel 143 -- 8. Living Ghosts: Long-Haired Destitutes in Colonial Hong Kong / James L. Watson 177 -- 9. Cutting the Fringes: Public Hair at the Margins of Japanese Censorship Laws / Anne Allison 195 -- 10. Cuts and Culture in Kathmandu / Julia J. Thompson 219 -- 11. The Disappearance of the Oiled Braid: Indian Adolescent Female Hairstyles in North America / Barbara D. Miller 259 -- 12. Afterword: Hair Power / Barbara D. Miller 281 Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Hair -- Social aspects -- Asia Hair -- Erotic aspects -- Asia Hairstyles -- Asia -- History Ornamental hairwork -- Asia -- History Hair -- history Beauty Culture -- history Symbolism HEALTH & FITNESS -- Beauty & Grooming. Hair -- Erotic aspects Hair -- Social aspects Hairstyles Manners and customs Ornamental hairwork Haardracht. Culturele aspecten. Hair -- Social aspects -- Asia. Hairstyles -- Asia -- History. Cheveux -- Aspect social -- Asie. Cheveux -- Anthropologie -- Asie. Coiffure -- Aspect social -- Asie. SUBJECT Asia -- Social life and customs Subject Asia Asia -- Social life and customs. Asie -- Moeurs et coutumes. Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Hiltebeitel, Alf Miller, Barbara D., 1948- LC no. 97027147 ISBN 0585056722 9780585056722 9781438406732 1438406738

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