Severed : A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found
Book Details
Delivery Location
Delivery fee: Select location
Delivery in 14 days
Our history is littered with heads. Over the centuries, they have decorated our churches, festooned our city walls and filled our museums; they have been props for artists and specimens for laboratory scientists, trophies for soldiers and items of barter. Today, as videos of decapitations circulate online and cryonicists promise that our heads may one day live on without our bodies, the severed head is as contentious and compelling as ever.
From shrunken heads to trophies of war; from memento mori to Damien Hirst''s With Dead Head; from grave-robbing phrenologists to enterprising scientists, Larson explores the bizarre, often gruesome and confounding history of the severed head. Its story is our story.
Get Severed by at the best price and quality guaranteed only at Werezi Africa's largest book ecommerce store. The book was published by Granta Books and it has pages.
