Follicular Circulations: Race in the Global Hair Market
How is race done in the transnational circulation of hair for the production of wigs, extensions, and toupees? Or to put it differently: what happens to race in its many guises, when hair is (com-)modified on its way from one head to another. Based on exploratory fieldwork, this post1 engages with this question, by drawing
Exploring multiplicity: Photographing and blogging as method
Partial truths: Blogging as research method – What do our methods actually do if they cannot depict reality as it is? This is not a new question
Dick description: Writing sexy
Let’s start with an anthropological classic: Geertz’s thick description of the Balinese cock fight which sometimes reads like a dick description[1
Loss: The story of Dande and her hair
To Dande who was not given the chance to wear her afro after chemotherapy. I’m sitting in a cafe in Amsterdam on a Sunday afternoon. Slightly
Positionalities: How my partner did field-work with me
I was standing in front of one of the work stations at Mastercut, the hairdressing salon I did my ethnographic fieldwork at. Two or three weeks in the
