{"product_id":"severed-frances-larson-9780871404541","title":"Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found","description":"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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Frances Larson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0871404540\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780871404541\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liveright Publishing Corporation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/17\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.00w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDiscover\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2014 pg. 68\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/07\/2014 pg. 83\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/05\/2014 pg. 13\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/16\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker (The)\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/12\/2015 pg. 71","brand":"Frances Larson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43926700982527,"sku":"9780871404541","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_37274295-f0b7-46e5-8698-690679ed1d8f.jpg?v=1681084533","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/severed-frances-larson-9780871404541","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}