Publication Date

6-1984

Advisor(s) - Committee Chair

Jay Anderson, Yvonne Lockwood, Lynwood Montell

Degree Program

Department of Folk Studies and Anthropology

Degree Type

Master of Arts

Abstract

This paper is a study of two artists. They are hairdressers who are part of mainstream American culture. Juanita Sublett has been a hairdresser for twenty years, and has had basically the same clientele for that time. Her true artistry is not in the technical aspect of hairdos, but in the creation of a setting in which her clients wish to be.

John Hopfensperger has been a hairdresser for eight years. He entered beauty school because he could be supported by his parents without having the academic pressures of college. After completing beauty school he had no intention of becoming a hairdresser, but could find no other :ob. He has created a hairdressing occupation that is totally suitable to himself. His clients can take or leave him; it makes very little difference to John. His artistry is in designing the best hairstyle he can for each of the people on whom he works.

The two hairdressers presented i:re artists in totally different ways, and are portrayed through their biographies, their shops, and their different occupations within the field of hairdressing.

Disciplines

Anthropology | Folklore | Social and Behavioral Sciences | Social and Cultural Anthropology

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