Hair: complexes and identities

Audio 48:30

Our hair: a way of presenting yourself to others © AFP / Sia Kambou

By: Emmanuelle Bastide

50 mins

Smooth, curly, curly, long or short, shaved or bald head, colored or natural, our hair attracts attention and participates in the construction of our identity.

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Revealing our tastes, fashions, our complexes too, a hairstyle or a haircut is less superficial than it seems.

Our hair, as a way of presenting oneself to others, makes it possible to mark one's belonging.

Between rites and traditions, they are part of a long social and cultural history.  

With:

Julien Dufresne-Lamy

, author of 

Antichute - a story of hair 

(Flammarion editions)

Michel Messu

, sociologist, author of 

An ethnologist at the hairdresser

(Fayard editions)

Fatimata Wane

, journalist at

France 24 

Musical programming:

Yakané - 

Dobet Gnahoré

Mano d'Oro - 

Crimi 

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