October 13 & October 20, 2010

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by iris de ath


The political symbolism of hair

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‘Since I am neither an anthropologist nor a barber, I will confine myself to pointing out that this political genre, however it may be practised in specific cases, can become a fundamental dividing line in other situations.  The body then tends to incarnate the order of politics, and especially political subjectivity; as such, it becomes a central issue itself.’

THE ILLUSION OF CULTURAL IDENTITY by Jean-Francois Bayart,
Chapter 4, The Materialisation of the Political Imaginaire, p. 187
Published by Hurst & Co London, 1996.