Melissa Keys: Hair Pieces kruger and defiantly – through our

and defiantly – through our own unpredictable times

Puerto Rico

This book recounts what must be one of the most unusual intellectual journeys of modern times

Inspired by the living multilingual environment of South Tyrol and its eventful history of interethnic cohabitation

Melissa Keys: Hair Pieces kruger and defiantly – through ourPerimeter Editions, 2025, hardcover, 144 pages, 15 x 24 cm Few subjects can evoke the entwinement of the corporeal, personal, and political so succinctly as that of hair. Throughout history, hair has been charged with significance and is resonant with meaning, transmitting ideas about gender, mythology, status and power, the body, psychology, feminism, and notions of beauty. At once radiant and repellent, and often richly symbolic, it has always