head shrinking
Trophy-making ritual practice
Head shrinking refers to the practice of preserving and reducing human heads, traditionally associated with the Shuar people of South America, who created shrunken heads called tsantsas as ritual trophies.
The term extends figuratively to psychiatry and psychology—a head shrinker or shrink is someone who treats mental disorders, the joke being that they reduce swollen egos or troubled minds.
- trophyAward for winning
- tribal ritualTraditional ceremonial group practice
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
- tribeSocial group sharing ancestry
- AmazonGreek warrior women
rain forest · skull · human remains · miniature · preserve · warrior · headhunter · ceremony · indigenous · Ecuador · leather · hair · scalp · ancestor · spirit · witchdoctor · voodoo · black magic
head shrinkingexpansion
Increase in scope
enlargement · cryopreservation · cremation · taxidermy · magnification
head, heads, headed, heading, headings, header, headers, headless, headship