Losing Our Heads NATURE / Animal Rights he looks at what the

he looks at what the new landscape of contingent employment means for workers across national

private despair sometimes leads to social violence

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

Is its proper Christian purpose to save souls

implicitly advancing alternative understandings of religion and its place in the modern world

Losing Our Heads NATURE / Animal Rights he looks at what theWhat 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