Severed : A History Of Heads Lost And Heads Found

Larson, Frances

London, 2014

By Granta Publications
$12.00 USD
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Hardcover with dust jacket, 317 pages, 6.25x9.50 in, [15.5x21 cm], B&W illustrations.
Condition

Price label applied to the rear panel of the dust jacket, slight age-tanning.
Notes

The author, Frances Larson, Research Fellow at Oxford University, writes in the Introduction:

“This book is about severed heads. Our history is littered with them. The word headhunting conjures up exotic, strange, and dangerous worlds far from civilization, but the truth is that human heads have long been paraded closer to home. We have our own particular traditions when it comes to headhunting, and over the centuries human heads have embellished almost every facet of our society—from the scaffold to the cathedral, and from the dissecting room to the art gallery. Our traditions of decapitation run deep and linger on, albeit tacitly, even today.”

Severed includes chapters entitled Shrunken Heads, Trophy Heads, Deposed Heads, Framed Heads, Potent Heads, Bone Heads, Dissected Heads, and Living Heads.
ISBN

9781783780556
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