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Friday, October 17, 2014
Skull-Shaping in Early Modern French Populations
Most people think of indigenous pre-Colombian South Americans when they think of skull-bandaging and shaping, but this article says that it was happening in rural France unto the modern era.
And apparently they've been doing this a while in France:
I study art history and I tend to find curious things that incite questions, reveal our corporeal unease, and generally make us think about how we consider the human body conceptually and physically. And so I present to you the strange gems I've come across.
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