Dr Frances Larson

Severed

A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A serious and seriously entertaining exploration of the dark and varied obsessions that the 'civilized West' has had with decapitated heads and skulls.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Granta Books
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 130mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 276g
• ISBN-13: 9781783780563
• ISBN-10: 1783780568
• Artikelnr.: 42535492

Autorenporträt

Dr FRANCES LARSON is an honorary research fellow in anthropology at Durham University. She is the author of a biography of Henry Wellcome, An Infinity of Things (OUP, 2009), which was part-funded by a Wingate Scholarship. The book was published to considerable critical acclaim and was subsequently shortlisted for the MJA Awards and chosen as a Sunday Times Book of The Year, as well as a New Scientist Best Book of 2009. She is also the co-author of Knowing Things (OUP, 2007), a book on the history of the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, where she worked as a researcher after receiving her D.Phil.