
CultureLab: Suzie Edge’s curious (and sometimes gruesome) history of famous body parts
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Exploring our Relationship with Death and Cultural Shifts
In this chapter, the podcast delves into our changing attitudes towards death and the practice of exhuming bodies for religious and political reasons. It also discusses the preservation of human heads, including the terrifying outcome for Jeremy Bentham, and the ethical issues surrounding the collecting and trading of Maori mochamochai heads.
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