Abstract

SIRIMARCO, Mariana. Rituales de separación y marcación del cuerpo: prescripciones del uso del cabello en la adquisición (y mantenimiento) del estatus policial. Nueva antropol [online]. 2011, vol.24, n.75, pp.27-42. ISSN 0185-0636.

Passage and separation rituals have been extensively discussed by the anthropological discipline focusing on the way in which bodies are marked in the acquisition of a new status. In this article I offer an example that updates these debates in view of a casuistry of our own society: the acquisition of police status. For this end, I consider the process of body marking of those who are initiated into this profession, taking the prescribed use of hair as my main point, in order to understand it more than as the degradation of a liminal subject, as an institutional manipulation tending to turn civilian bodies into legitimate police bodies.

Keywords : separation ritual; body; hair style; police.