{"product_id":"severed-a-history-of-heads-lost-and-heads-found","title":"Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eSevered: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eFrances Larson\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780871404541\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eLiveright\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2014\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eIllustrated\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e336\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Liveright","offers":[{"title":"Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found | Frances Larson | Hardcover | 9780871404541 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks F 1785750","offer_id":67793064099992,"sku":"1785750","price":10.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71PMDjMyJfL.jpg?v=1792764987","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/severed-a-history-of-heads-lost-and-heads-found","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}