Biblioteca Digital Curt Nimuendajú

Coleção Nicolai

In this article, hair is discussed from a theoretical point of view, and, despite the fact that it can be considered as a fundamental link between the biological and spiritual spheres in the human mind, it is pointed out that a deeper analysis must be made of the socio-cultural context in which it is present.
In examining this more abstruse rôle of hair in the symbolic system of human societies, the most important approach is the consideration of its various aspects in isolation; not compounding or mixing up ethnographic data such as cultural hair-dressing, mutilating hair-dressing by cutting, removing hair or shaving the head, the ornamental use of hair, or avoidance of hair as a dangerous element.
Ethnographic data relating to examples taken from some Brazilian Indian tribes have been briefly analysed in order to explain the special rôle of hair in this profound socio-cultural sense.

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