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Chris Hallpike's View Of Hair And Social Control

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Hair and Social Control

Given that here the neatly tied hair, restrained by the comb is associated with salvation, the same way long matted hair or a shaved hair and face is associated with salvation with Hinduism. But in one of the cases the man is completely immersed in the society, he renounces society in the other. Chris Hallpike asserts that long hair is identified with someone not concerned with the affairs of the society, the state of being outside society whereas short hair can be identified with being more subject to social control(ibid.,8). He equates hairiness with animality to argue that long hair signifies someone who is outside society, and thus not associated with someone not living in civil society(ibid.,9). He uses examples of soldiers and convicts having short hair to further his argument that the length of hair is related to the degree of social control the individual is subject to. Examples from the Bible of how long hair is associated with animality are used by him to reinforce his argument(ibid.,11). Though it might be a plausible explanation in Western society, it does not seem to explain how the Sikh, whose religion’s nature requires him to be live in the society to attain salvation and also to keep his hair unshorn can be explained to be outside social control or to be labelled someone who is distant or not interested in the affairs of everyday life.

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