Social Anthropology Seminar Monday, 20th November 2017 Professor Emma Tarlo – University of London
| Dates: | 20 November 2017 |
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| Times: | 16:00 - 18:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Social Sciences |
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| Speaker: | Professor Emma Tarlo |
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Social Anthropology Seminar
Monday, 20th November 2017
Professor Emma Tarlo – University of London
Human Crop: The Awkwardness of Other People's Hair
Hair is something intimate and familiar. Growing spontaneously from our heads, demanding attention throughout our lives, it is intrinsically bound up with our sense of self and plays a significant and sensuous role in personal and social biographies. But hair is also a commodity in an expanding global market for wigs and extensions. In this context it is detached, collected up, accumulated, recycled, refashioned and redistributed worldwide where it becomes incorporated into new lives. This paper focuses on the awkwardness of this human crop and on the techniques used in the trade to mask the actual origins of hair whilst at the same time emphasising its human qualities. It asks how and why China's central role in the industry is obscured and explores how fictionalised ethnicities are invented to make hair more acceptable and desirable as it transfers from head to head and continent to continent.The presentation draws on Emma Tarlo's recent book, Entanglement: The Secret Lives of Hair (2016) which was written and published as a work of anthropological non-fiction. She will be happy to discuss the challenges of writing in this genre in the discussion following the talk
2.016/.017
Second Floor Boardroom, Arthur Lewis Building
4:15 – 6:00pm
(Tea and coffee available outside the room from 4:00pm)
ALL WELCOME!
Speaker
Professor Emma Tarlo
Role: Speaker
Organisation: University of London
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