Abstract
This paper is an exposition of the documental being, becoming, and unbecoming of hair, wherein I argue that although human hair is a corporeal material, and an object that can be viewed through various perspectives and theories, it can also be read as a document imbued with meaning, intention, and perception by humans, and fulfills Suzanne Briet’s criteria (Briet, 2006; Buckland, 1997) for an object to be considered a document: it has materiality (it must be a physical thing), intentionality (intended as evidence), needs processing (to be made part of a documentary system), and is an object of phenomenological perception (recognized as a document by humans).
Recommended Citation
Narayan, Bhuva
(2025)
"Reading Hair as a Document,"
Proceedings from the Document Academy: Vol. 12
:
Iss.
2
, Article 19.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.35492/docam/12/2/22
Available at:
https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/docam/vol12/iss2/19
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.35492/docam/12/2/22