The evolution of female hair self-decoration aesthetics (Case study: Arab nomadic women of Kuti village of Hesarbalai, Varamin)

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Art Faculty,Research Institute of Culture, Arts and CommunicationsزAssistant Professor

10.22059/ijar.2025.394918.459919

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Purpose:Self-decoration of women's hair is one of the most important cultural-historical components of Iran, so that even today we witness the importance of this cultural component in various discourses. In fact, the main question is, what are the influential components in the aesthetics of traditional and modern self-decoration of women's hair?
Methodology: In this research, an attempt was made to use the analytical-descriptive research method and ethnographic field study (interview and participatory observation) Let's analyze the influential components in the aesthetics of traditional and modern self-decoration of women's and girls' hair of the Kuti Arab tribes as the largest Arab tribes of Tehran living in the village of Hesar‌Balai Varamin, and on this basis, we are trying to analyze these components by benefiting from the theoretical literature of the anthropology of aesthetics and the body.
Findings: The findings show that ethnic identity, age, social and economic status play an important role in the beauty of traditional self-decoration of women's and girls' hair, and over the last hundred years, Factors such as the intervention of governance systems in the way of desirable self-decoration and fashionable self-decoration patterns of the world that are reproduced through various media and have caused changes in the beauty components of hair self-decoration among young women and girls, and they often try to reproduce the "ideal hair of the era", although in some cases the components of modern aesthetics are in conflict with the traditional components, but the predominance of the components of the current era over tradition is evident.

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Iranian Journal of Anthropological Research
Volume 14, Issue 2 - Serial Number 26
Indexing Databases
February 2025
Pages 237-256

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