FEAR OF CLOWNS? YES, IT'S REAL
Coulrophobia is the fear of clowns.
Anthropologist Claude Levi Strauss has discussed extensively the “freedoms” awarded by a mask: They let people bypass conventions and the everyday, sometimes acting as “the medium for men to enter into relations with the supernatural world”.
Masks allow wearers to adopt a new identity by constructing a new face for the individual—and restricting the range of human responses possible.
Masks, then, impose a new set of communicative rules on the individual, who is separated from normal social behavior and expectations once the mask is in place.
With their painted faces, clowns are free to push the limits of tolerance.
However, the mask itself carries an identity. So the individual does not have total freedom behind the mask, but must exhibit the traits of the character he means to portray.
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THE HISTORY AND PSYCHOLOGY OF CLOWNS
New article on Smithsonian Magazine:
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TERRIFYING PHOTO OF BRAIN EATING AMOEBAS THAT LOOK EXACTLY LIKE THE FACE OF A CLOWN
A microscopic view of the brain-eating amoeba known as Naegleria fowleri reveals a trio of feeding structures, twisted into a macabre clown-face. The parasitic organism – which lives in warm bodies of fresh water – has infected 128 people since 1962. Only one has survived.
See picture and read article here - http://io9.com/this-mysterious-brain-eating-amoeba-is-the-stuff-of-nig-1039948857
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