Body Hair and the Construction of Concepts of Personhood - Bog af Leslie S. Nthoi - Paperback
This study is located within a broad theoretical field of socio-cultural understandings of human appearance, body image, modification and its adornment (anthropology of the body). Different cultures encounter and perceive body hair differently. This study investigates the relationship between religious and cultural perceptions of body hair and the social construction of concepts of personhood, gender and sexuality. Based on our analysis of Bakalanga ethnography, we conclude that hair defines what..