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Article: Psychiatrist seeks meaning behind facial hair in book `One Thousand Beards'
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- Daily Breeze
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- January 8, 2002
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Psychiatrist seeks meaning behind facial hair in book `One
Thousand Beards'
There are those with infamous facial hair: Satan, Hitler, Ho Chi
Minh, Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden.
There are those with revolutionary beards: Fidel Castro, Che
Guevara, Karl Marx, Vladimir Lenin, Osama bin Laden. And religious
beards: Christ, Moses, Zeus, Rastafarians, Amish, Sikhs, Jews,
Muslims . . . and Osama bin Laden.
While statistics show that 90 percent of men shave at least once a
day, those who don't choose not to for a reason, conscious or
otherwise. That's what Allan Peterkin, a Toronto-based psychiatrist,
posits in his new book, One Thousand Beards: A Cultural History of
Facial Hair.
"The gesture ...