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The Face: A Cultural History

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“An ambitious, entertaining survey of human perception.”The New York Times

“Exuberant… Its historical morsels will stay with you long after you finish.”The Economist


Award-winning historian Fay Bound-Alberti synthesizes over twenty years of research to offer a sweeping cultural history of our most decisive—and sometimes divisive—body part.

What's in a face? And how much power does it hold?

The Face begins in the historical West, where we learn how humans have interpreted faces and connected...