Due to the interchangeability of phrenology and physiognomy, I have elected to combine the two topics into one long section that I will cover for the next two weeks. At first, I had a hard time tracking down books on these subjects, particularly physiognomy. I think that because that it has been used to justify racism and certainly looks-ism, it has become scarce and some of the only remaining texts on it are those from the perspectives of rather ill personage. I did eventually find some, and now have a stack of books with extreme "character", and extensive use of Futura font. One book I have has a stamp from someone checking it out in 1910! (I had no idea books this old were able to be checked out from my local library.) I will post shortly some thoughts on these subjects once I'm using a computer that isn't as terrible as the one in my college's writing center.
Have you visited face-and-emotion.com? There's some interesting material there that may be worth checking out.
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