Emma Tarlo is Emeritus Professor in Anthropology, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. She specializes in the anthropology of cities and material culture with reference to dress, fashion, textiles, the body and hair. Some of her recent publications include Entanglement: The Secret Lives of Hair (2017), Unsettling Memories: Narratives of the Emergency in Delhi (2003), and Under the Hornbeams: A True Story of Life in the Open (2024). She is a Fellow of the British Academy.