26 Very Important Nonfiction Books You Should Be Reading
The severed head is a constant fascination. As the site of four of the five senses, they are prizes, from shrunken heads and trophies of war to grave-robbing phrenologists and that photograph of a teenage Damien Hirst posing with a severed head in a mortuary. In her book, anthropologist Larson explores the macabre history of the decapitated head – and why we're all so fixated.Suggested by @youngvulgarian.
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