Origins of the Afro Comb: 6,000 Years of Culture, Politics and Identity - Paperback

by Sally-Ann Ashton (Editor)

Exhibition catalogue from 2013 exhibit at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. Chapters include: An Introduction to the Exhibition (Sally-Ann Ashton); An Overview of African Type Hair for the Afro Comb Project (Sandra Gittens); Materials of Construction and Use (Pia Edqvist); Drawing a Comb (Atta Kwami); The Image of the (Afro) Comb in Contemporary Nigerian Art (Ohioma I. Pogoson); Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Comb(ination)s from the Eastern Regions of south Africa (Nessa Leibhammer); 'Good Hair/Bad Hair': Black Hair Styling, Culture and Politics in the African Diaspora (Michael McMillan).