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 decapita...
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.
作者简介
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Frances Larson is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Durham and the author of An Infinity of Things: How Sir Henry Wellcome Collected the World and Severed. She lives in Durham.
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0 有用 Enkay 2017-06-20 16:55:12
中译《人类砍头小史》。除开猎奇，人类学方向的探讨也是蛮有趣的。
0 有用 Trojan小木马 2020-06-03 00:13:13
六月读的第一本书，作者Frances好迷人，看书名以为是很沉重的一本书，但作者写的很有趣。第五章特别好，把主教的头砍下后煮得半熟（很可怕的事在作者笔下还是挺学术的，值得阅读。
0 有用 Trojan小木马 2020-06-03 00:13:13
六月读的第一本书，作者Frances好迷人，看书名以为是很沉重的一本书，但作者写的很有趣。第五章特别好，把主教的头砍下后煮得半熟（很可怕的事在作者笔下还是挺学术的，值得阅读。
0 有用 Enkay 2017-06-20 16:55:12
中译《人类砍头小史》。除开猎奇，人类学方向的探讨也是蛮有趣的。