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Hair: Its power and meaning in Asian cultures was inspired by an after-dinner discussion between some high powered Asian scholars and, though some of the essays are very sober, some trace of stimulating after-dinner conversation persists in Ganana th Obeyesekere's foreword, with its "root meanings" and "cultural grammars' that are 'loose', like hair itself." -- Times Literary Supplement, July 10, 1998
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Alf Hiltebeitel is Professor in the Department of Religion at George Washington University. He edited Criminal Gods and Demon Devotees: Essays on the Guardians of Popular Hinduism and The Ritual of Battle: Krishna in the Mahaharata, both published by SUNY
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An awful atrocity of the literary genre. It was like the personal notebooks of various authors compiled into an uneven mess. Too many articles, too many footnotes & references to page numbers of other books, too little of pictures. Too many irrelevant points of view. I did not enjoy it. It's only a few hundred pages and is entirely black & white, and it was way to high-priced. Like $24.00. If you're looking for any meaning or pictures of the wonderful & elaborate hair dos of Asia, you will find no information in this horrible book.
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