Professionalizing hair care in Tonga
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| Publication date | 2013 |
| Journal | Anthropology Now |
| Volume | Issue number | 5 | 1 |
| Pages (from-to) | 18-26 |
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| Abstract | In the course of the last two decades, Nuku'alofa, the capital of Tonga, witnessed an explosion of a particular kind of business, hair salons. For owners, workers, and customers alike, hair salons represent modernity and cosmopolitanism, and they thus attract a particular kind of clientele and labour, predominantly middle-aged women and transgender males. Salons are the site of feminine sociability, and illustrate how the body and its care can become, in many parts of the world, a claim to a dignity and respectability that is often not available through other means. |
| Document type | Article |
| Language | English |
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https://doi.org/10.5816/anthropologynow.5.1.0018
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