Isbn: 9780791437421 - hair: its power and meaning in asian cultures (16 résultats)

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Soft cover. Etat : Fine. 1st Edition. Aside from a touch of edgewear, the boook appears almost UNREAD!Alf Hiltebeitel and Barbara D. Miller were academic scholars who brought to this collaborative editorial project the rigorous analytical frameworks and deep specialist knowledge characteristic of serious academic cultural anthropology and South and East Asian studies. Hiltebeitel was a distinguished scholar of South Asian religion and culture with particular expertise in Hindu religious traditions, while Miller was an anthropologist with broad expertise in Asian cultures and gender studies. Their collaboration on this volume brought together complementary scholarly perspectives that between them spanned a wide range of Asian cultural traditions and analytical approaches, giving the resulting collection a breadth and intellectual depth that a single author working alone might have found difficult to achieve. Hair Its Power and Meaning in Asian Cultures is an edited scholarly collection of essays examining the cultural, religious, social, and symbolic significance of hair across a wide range of Asian societies and traditions. The subject of hair proves to be one of remarkable richness and complexity when approached with serious scholarly attention, as hair occupies a uniquely powerful position in human symbolic life, being simultaneously a part of the body and something that grows beyond it, capable of being cut, styled, displayed, concealed, offered, or destroyed in ways that carry profound cultural meaning across virtually every human society. The essays gathered in the collection address hair practices and meanings across a diverse range of Asian cultural contexts including Hindu, Buddhist, Sikh, Japanese, Chinese, and other traditions, examining how hair cutting, growing, covering, styling, and offering function as markers of religious status, social identity, gender, mourning, devotion, and political allegiance within these different cultural frameworks. The diversity of traditions addressed gives the collection a genuinely comparative dimension that allows readers to identify both the specific meanings hair carries within particular cultural contexts and the broader cross cultural patterns that emerge when hair symbolism is examined across a wide range of Asian societies simultaneously. The religious dimensions of hair practice receive particularly substantial attention throughout the collection, reflecting the editors' scholarly backgrounds and the extraordinary importance of hair in religious ritual and symbolism across Asian traditions. The tonsure practices of Buddhist monasticism, the uncut hair of the Sikh tradition and its profound theological significance, the offering of hair at Hindu temples, and the elaborate ritual meanings attached to hair in various contexts of Hindu religious life all receive careful and informed scholarly examination. The book represents a significant contribution to the academic literature on body symbolism, material culture, and Asian religious and social life, bringing together specialist scholarship on a subject that had not previously received the sustained and systematic comparative attention it deserved. As an edited collection it reflects the collaborative model of scholarship that has proven particularly productive in interdisciplinary fields where the breadth of cultural and linguistic expertise required to address a subject comprehensively exceeds what any single scholar can reasonably command.…

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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. An interdisciplinary exploration of the meanings of hair in Asia from classical times to contemporary contexts. An interdisciplinary exploration of the meanings of hair in Asia from classical times to contemporary contexts. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Etat : Brand New. illustrated edition. 297 pages. 9.50x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Etat : New. 1998. Illustrated. paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. An interdisciplinary exploration of the meanings of hair in Asia from classical times to contemporary contexts. An interdisciplinary exploration of the meanings of hair in Asia from classical times to contemporary contexts. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

Etat : New. KlappentextrnrnHair - 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.