Certainly one of my preoccupations, given that I am a ‘head shrinker‘. This article reviews both technique and reveals much about the complex of social custom and ritual around ‘head shrinking’. But in this case, we are not talking about the practice of psychiatry, but the real thing, which occurs in the aftermath of tribal warfare and revenge among the South American Jivaro-Shuar. (Journal of Neurosurgery via Very Short List)