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Hair : its power and meaning in Asian cultures /
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 ar...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©1998.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.