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measure progress toward their goals

Losing Our Heads John F. Greden the book goes on toWhat is the fascination that decollation holds for us, as individuals and as a culture? Why does the idea make us laugh and the act make us close our eyes? Losing Our Heads explores in both artistic and cultural contexts the role of the chopped off head. It asks why the practice of decapitation was once so widespread, why it has diminished but not, as scenes from contemporary Iraq show, completely disappeared and why we find it so peculiarly repulsive