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 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,...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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New York
Liveright Publishing Corporation
[2014]
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| Ausgabe: | First edition |
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| Zusammenfassung: | "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."-- From publisher's description |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-307) and index Prologue: Oliver Cromwell's head -- Introduction: Irresistible heads -- Shrunken heads -- Trophy heads -- Deposed heads -- Framed heads -- Potent heads -- Bone heads -- Dissected heads -- Living heads -- Conclusion: Other people's heads |
| Umfang: | xviii, 317 Seiten Illustrationen 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780871404541 |
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| spelling | Larson, Frances 1976- Verfasser (DE-588)134071239 aut Severed a history of heads lost and heads found Frances Larson First edition New York Liveright Publishing Corporation [2014] xviii, 317 Seiten Illustrationen 25 cm txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-307) and index Prologue: Oliver Cromwell's head -- Introduction: Irresistible heads -- Shrunken heads -- Trophy heads -- Deposed heads -- Framed heads -- Potent heads -- Bone heads -- Dissected heads -- Living heads -- Conclusion: Other people's heads "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."-- From publisher's description Head / Social aspects Head / Religious aspects Symbolic anthropology Beheading Skull / Social aspects Human remains (Archaeology) / Social aspects Gesellschaft Religion |
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