Losing Our Heads NATURE / Animal Rights The Nation's Bounty contains the

The Nation's Bounty contains the original poems alongside English translations by Jeff Opland

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

as well as a celebration of indulging in personal passions as an excellent way of achieving happiness

private despair sometimes leads to social violence

using PKK rebels’ own voices to show why young people join and fight for the group and its affiliates in Syria and Iran

Losing Our Heads NATURE / Animal Rights The Nation's Bounty contains 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