ABSTRACT
The introduction presents an overview of key concepts covered in the subsequent chapters of this book. In social interactions, the book is aware of the importance of saving face, and loss of face by either party is something to be avoided. The book represents the five types of the chapter. The book first begins by exploring the way people respond to images photographic images of the face. It then discusses the story of Mary, a woman unable to move her facial muscles and unable to show emotion or feeling in her face and thus excluded from social interaction. The book also examines how they strip away the face to reveal a different and perhaps more fundamental form of facelessness, a facelessness that exposes the vulnerability that the face normally conceals. Finally, and it examines disfigurement, cosmetic surgery, and face transplants. The final section of the chapter examines the implications of the study for concepts of personhood and politics.
