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A Cultural History of Hair in the Age of Empire (Paperback)
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A Cultural History of Hair in the Age of Empire (Paperback)
Series: The Cultural Histories Series
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"A thick, tangled and deliciously idiosyncratic history of hair."
Times Literary Supplement 19th and early 20th-century hair appears
to be everywhere when you start to look, from the abundant locks of
the pre-Raphaelites to the myriad objects on show at the Great
Exhibitions. The latter, hosted at venues such as the Crystal
Palace, hinted at the level of global trade in hair economies, from
hair harvest, hairpieces, and hairwork to commodities for styling
and adornment. It was a period when hair became fetishized in all
sorts of ways, from fashioning hair to moralising constriction,
from suggestions of sexuality in abundant free-flowing locks, to
intricate hair-incorporating jewellery which offered spiritual
connections to the dead. In a period of increasing globalization
and associated anxieties, hair came to express identity not just
for the individual but for different cultures. Perhaps inevitably,
hair itself became a contested site of signification whether as the
strands of the diaspora, the cut locks of the underclass, or the
coiffures of the court. A Cultural History of Hair in the Age of
Empire presents an overview of the tangled tresses of hair in this
period, with essays covering: Religion and Ritualized Belief; Self
and Society; Fashion and Adornment; Production and Practice; Health
and Hygiene; Gender and Sexuality; Race and Ethnicity; Class and
Social Status and Cultural Representations.
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