By Kurt Stenn
A microhistory within the vein of Salt and Cod exploring the organic, evolutionary, and cultural background of 1 of the world's so much attention-grabbing fibers.
Most humans do not supply a moment proposal to the stuff on their head, yet hair has played a very important position in in type, the humanities, activities, trade, forensics, and undefined. In Hair, Kurt Stenn — one of many world's most advantageous hair follicle specialists — takes readers on worldwide trip via heritage, from fur service provider institutions and sheep farms to scientific clinics and sufferer aid teams, to teach the impressive impression hair has had on human life.
From a totally bald attractiveness queen with alopecia to the famed hair-hang circus act, Stenn weaves the background of hair via various alluring examples, with sources various from renaissance retailers’ diaries to interviews with wig makers, glossy barbers, and extra. as well as expelling the organic foundation and the evolutionary background of hair, the fiber is positioned into context: hair in background (as tied to cloth turbines and service provider associations), hair as a build for cultural and self-identity, hair within the arts (as the cloth for artist's brushes and musical instruments), hair as commodity (used for every thing from the internal lining of tennis balls to an absorbent to wash up oil spills), and hair as facts in criminology.
Perfect for enthusiasts of Mark Kurlansky, Hair is a compelling learn dependent solidly in historic and clinical learn that may satisfaction any reader who desires to comprehend extra in regards to the international round them.
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