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Encounters with Hair

Abstract

This film examines a less conventional inherited family object: hair and the range of emotions and memories that it can evoke. We show how people in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries preserved their loved one’s hair, weaving it into jewellery as mementoes or keeping locks as material memories. Today, even if we feel more ambivalent about hair, it still elicits strong feelings and so the film explores what we do with an object that only has meaning for a close loved one and around which it is more difficult to weave family stories and histories. With Katie Barclay, Leanne Calvert, Joanne Begiato, Laura Baldock, and Thalia Allington-Wood.

DOI (Digital Object Identifier)

Permanent link to this resource: https://doi.org/10.24384/fxm9-3358

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Authors

Joanne Begiato (Oxford Brookes University)
Lily Ford (Birkbeck University)
Katie Barclay (University of Adelaide)

Oxford Brookes departments

Department of History, Philosophy and Culture

Dates

Year: 2022

Funding

AHRC : Inheriting the Family: Emotions, History, and Heritage (AH/T003308/1)

GeoLocations

England

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Published by Oxford Brookes University

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