Object Lessons: Hair

基本信息

Series:Object Lessons

Format:Paperback / softback 152 pages

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Imprint:Bloomsbury Academic USA

ISBN:9781628922868

Published:28 Jul 2016

Weight:146g

Dimensions:122 x 164 x 15 (mm)

頁面參數僅供參考，具體以實物為準

書籍簡介

《實例研究》系列內容簡短，設計精美，探索生活中常見物件的鮮為人知的故事，激勵我們重新審視日常生活中我們習以為常的事物。

頭髮是我們哺乳動物的主要標誌，也是經濟和社會地位、政治傾向、宗教信仰、婚姻狀況和文化傾向的特別標誌。頭髮的含義是深刻的、強有力的，而且深深根植於文化環境中，所以它們通常被無意識地理解(而且是更加強烈地理解)。

梳理其無數含義的過程中，斯科特·洛揭示了無論髮型如何，我們都很難控制自己的頭髮:每一個路過的人都會重新決定它的意義。從赫提人到嬉皮士，從五旬節派到色情明星，《頭髮》梳理了一個無處不在的私人但公共的物件，一件充滿活力、精心管理的死亡物品。

About how the manipulation of human hair holds fascinating symbolic meanings and provokes profound visceral impacts in all cultures of the world.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

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 managed dead thing.

Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

目錄

I. Introduction

II. Biology of Hair

III. Responses to It

Removal

Covered

Uncut

Manipulated

Magical

Hair Cutting as Civilization, Control, and Marker of Domination

Hair and Mourning

IV. Conclusions: What Does It All Mean?

Index

作者簡介

Scott Lowe is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, USA, and Co-General Editor of Nova Religio.