Wall Street Journal article found on Yale’s website:
Angwin, Julia. “A Head Trip: Indian Hair Finds Parts in Hollywood.” Wall Street Journal. 30 Sept 2008. 21 Aug 2003.
From JSTOR:
Berry, Esther R. “The zombie commodity: hair and the politics of its globalization." Postcolonial Studies. 11.1 (2008): 63-84.
Leach, E. R. “Magical Hair.” The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 88.2 (1958): 147-164.
From an English-language German newspaper:
Sandberg, Britta. “Hindu Locks Keep Hair Tradu Humming.” Spiegel Online International. 30 Sept 2008. 19 Feb 2008.
--Nicole Halmi
3 comments:
I don't know if this is at all of interest to you and what you're going for, but there could be some interesting parallels as well as differences between hair and fur, which catapults things into a whole new realm of possibilities. As far as fur goes, you've got your cliché "fur is murder" stuff to go into, as well as other clothing uses which, I'm sure, have a very rich history. You can also talk about dander! Shampoo (industry?) Allergies! And then there are things like poodles and other non-allergenic dogs (single coat and so on.)
-Crow Jonah Norlander
you should talk about haircuts as punishment; it's quite widespread around the world to cut off someone's hair as punishment for misbehavior.
here's the googlebooks scan of "Hair and Scalp Disorders" by Raymond Bonnett and Rodney Dawber et al, which has a section on Hair Punishment:
http://books.google.com/books?id=V930WkDK7kcC&pg=RA1-PA277&lpg=RA1-PA277&dq=hair+punishment&source=web&ots=UIcC7435wU&sig=khs33VnS4xFYc7z5bYgcA3tr3Ac&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result
a google search on "hair punishment cut" yields a bunch of hilarious/depressing message board questions about "cutting off your teenage girl's hair as a punishment...ethical?".. huh.
http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/650402
http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/amos/board_id,4856/cat_id,4456/topic_id,3725826/a,messageboard/action,replies/
good luck. cool museum.
Pablo
For one, there are fairly extensive online discussions of knitting with dog and cat hair.
There's a Chinese artist named Wei Jingxian who embroiders photorealistic portraits of famous figures with hair. Check out the Engels portrait! It ties this whole course together. Go here: http://www.wjxart.com/Professor.htm
Here's a photo of a brush that an inmate-artist made using his own hair for bristles: http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2006/07/21/us/21brush.html
Kata-gumi stencils are 18th-century Japanese stencils for printing that often use human hair as a fine mesh screen. Here's an example:
http://campana.cooperhewitt.org/design/stencil-kata-gami-flying-bats
Good luck!
-Emily Segal
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