{"product_id":"severed-by-dr-frances-larson-9781783780563","title":"Severed","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOur 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eToday, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom shrunken heads to trophies of war; from memento mori to Damien Hirst's \u003ci\u003eWith Dead Head\u003c\/i\u003e; from grave-robbing phrenologists to enterprising scientists, Larson explores the bizarre, often gruesome and confounding history of the severed head.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIts story is our story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46551631364332,"sku":"9781783780563","price":30.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/2420463482823.jpg?v=1750007040","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/severed-by-dr-frances-larson-9781783780563","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}