Encyclopedia of Hair: A Cultural History

by Victoria Sherrow

Book Overview

Examines the ways in which hair has served as a signifier of class, gender, ethnicity, conformity/non-comfority, authority, and power throughout history. Countless issues and examples are explored in this volume including: hair styles of royalty; wigs worn by lawmakers and judges; ceremonial hairstyles of tribes throughout the world; Oliver Cromwell's Roundheads; hair in the counterculture (including the musical Hair); skinheads, Mohawks and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313331456
• ISBN13: 9780313331459
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.0" x 10.3"