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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Larson, Frances, 1976- author.     Subjects     Head -- Social aspects.     Head -- Religious aspects.     Beheading.     Skull -- Social aspects.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Larson, Frances, 1976- author.       by title:      Severed : a history ...         MARC Display

Severed : a history of heads lost and heads found / Frances Larson. by Larson, Frances, 1976- author. New York : Liveright Publishing Corporation, c2014. Subjects Head -- Social aspects.   Head -- Religious aspects.   Beheading.   Skull -- Social aspects. ISBN:  9780871404541 0871404540 Description:  xviii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  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. Requests:  0 Summary:  "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."--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 306.4 La Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 306.4 Larson Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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