Documentação das técnicas e dos penteados afros aplicados ao cabelo crespo

Abstract

The present work that is inserted in the area of ​​Museological Documentation has as an object of research the curly hair of black women. It is about the techniques and afro hairstyles applied to the hair. The aim is to define the hair curly in the eyes of clients and hairdressers of the five salons surveyed in city ​​of Cachoeira - Bahia. Knowing the motivation that lead them to keep their hair as reflected in their cultural identity. These are essential factors for better understand why some of them prefer to adhere to chemical interventions and others, to afro hairstyles and extensions. Our methodology involves participant observation, interviews, questionnaires, reports, photographic records,readings, notes. And presents the main authors read. We chose the theme curly hair of black women due to the fact that we are of African descent and have the sense of belonging and this black racial ethnic group. And by encouraging certain professors of the museology course at UFRB, to carry out a TCC on this topic. Our efforts have been satisfactory due to the fact that we have been accepted in the researched spaces and by the interviewees having available. The clients of the surveyed salons responded in a differentiated, when we ask what curly hair is: “dry hair”;“difficult to take care of”; “black hair”; “hard hair, mass hair”; “undefined hair”;“They are those who are born spiraled. They are opaque and dry due to the difficulty of natural oils from the scalp to reach the ends. are usually beaded or curly; A hair that needs chemistry to straighten”; “bad hairtreated"; “Hair that is not taken care of”; “Hair with capillary structure in the form of aspiral, rougher and originating from black people or who carry these traits.”