The Cultural Body: Alterations
The Shaped Skull
| Head-shaping has been practiced for centuries world-wide in aristocratic ancient Greek and Roman families, among North, Central and South American Indians, in Africa and in Europe. In areas of Holland, for example, tight-fitting caps worn by women throughout their lives created a unique head shape. Up to the eighteenth century, a regional group of French people placed a constricting band on children's heads causing a circular depression around the skull. In Hitler's Germany, anxious parents massaged babies' heads into the favored long shape of the master race. |
 101. Devices for deforming the head
From Dembo & Imbelloni, Deformaciones. |
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