The face

Writer and cultural historian Fay Bound-Alberti synthesizes over twenty years of research to offer a breathtaking 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 is one of our quintessential features and is the only part of the body where all the senses come together: smell, taste, sight, touch, hearing. Though your face might change over the course of your life - whether through aging, accident, illness or lifestyle - it remains a foundational marker of your identity. The Face explores the ways humans have interpreted faces and correlated their features with ideas of morality, social hierarchy, psychology and so much more, revealing some of the cultural biases that inform the interactions of our everyday lives Source other than Library of Congress.