Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found by Larson, Frances
Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found by Larson, Frances

Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found

The human head is exceptional. It accommodates four of our five senses, encases the brain, and boasts...
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Author: Frances Larson
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Language: English
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Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found by Larson, Frances

Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found

$42.15
Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found by Larson, Frances

Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found

$42.15
Author: Frances Larson
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
The human head is exceptional. It accommodates four of our five senses, encases the brain, and boasts the most expressive set of muscles in the body. It is our most distinctive attribute and connects our inner selves to the outer world. Yet there is a dark side to the head's preeminence, one that has, in the course of human history, manifested itself in everything from decapitation to headhunting. So explains anthropologist Frances Larson in this fascinating history of decapitated human heads. From the Western collectors whose demand for shrunken heads spurred massacres to Second World War soldiers who sent the remains of the Japanese home to their girlfriends, from Madame Tussaud modeling the guillotined head of Robespierre to Damien Hirst photographing decapitated heads in city morgues, from grave-robbing phrenologists to skull-obsessed scientists, Larson explores our macabre fixation with severed heads.

Author: Frances Larson
Publisher: Liveright Publishing Corporation
Published: 11/02/2015
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781631490996

About the Author
Larson, Frances: - Frances Larson is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Durham and the author of An Infinity of Things: How Sir Henry Wellcome Collected the World and Severed. She lives in Durham.
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