Hairdos and Don'ts
Hair Symbolism and Sexual History in Samoa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11240752 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeannette Mageo (0000-0001-9522-1794, corresponding author), Jeannette Marie Mageo |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 138 |
| Publication date | 1996-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Frontiers A Journal of Women Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0160-9009 • E-ISSN: 1536-0334 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3346607 |
| OpenAlex | W2480450175 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
Hair is one of the classical foci of scholarly musing about the body, attaining this focal status through the seminal essay of Edmund Leach, "Magical Hair." My intention is to draw the strands of this debate into a coherent conversation and to contribute to the colloquy by exploring transformations of feminine sex roles in Samoa from contact to the present. I do so by viewing changes in hair styles as indices of changes in these roles, arguing that the rules for hairdos that pertained to young women in precontact Samoa paralleled "dos and don'ts" for their sexual behavior and that changes in the former and the latter coincided. I use historical and ethnographic sources to document their changes, as well as data collected during my own eight-year residence in Samoa from 1981 to 1989
Art · Asian Culture and Media Studies · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies · History · Research in Social Sciences
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2017 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |