Losing Our Heads NATURE / Animal Rights Is its proper Christian purpose

Is its proper Christian purpose to save souls

through the eyes of an acclaimed Hispanic observer of religious and social histories

The Nation's Bounty contains the original poems alongside English translations by Jeff Opland

As documented by Jeff Opland in The Dassie and the Hunter (UKZN Press)

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Losing Our Heads NATURE / Animal Rights Is its proper Christian purposeWhat 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 diminishedbut not, as scenes from contemporary Iraq show, completely disappearedand why we find it so peculiarly repulsive