Dark trophies : hunting and the enemy body in modern war /

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Many anthropological accounts of warfare in indigenous societies have described the taking of heads or other body parts as trophies. But almost nothing is known of the prevalence of trophy-taking of this sort in the armed forces of contemporary nation-states. This book is a history of this type of m...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harrison, Simon, 1952- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2014.
Temas:
Military trophies > History.
Military history, Modern.
Trophées militaires > Histoire.
Histoire militaire moderne et contemporaine.
HISTORY > Military > Other.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Military Science.
Military trophies.
Trophäe > Siegeszeichen
Kopfjäger
Krieg
Krieg.
Trophäe.
Gefallener.
Körper.
Schädel.
Westliche Welt
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Dark Trophies; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1
  • Schemas and Metaphors; Chapter 2
  • Hunting and War; Chapter 3
  • Bodies and Class in the Age of Revolution; Chapter 4
  • The European Enlightenment and the Origins of Scalping; Chapter 5
  • Skulls and Science; Chapter 6
  • The Collecting Expedition as a Magical Quest; Chapter 7
  • Skulls and Scientific Collecting in the Victorian Military; Chapter 8
  • From Hero to Specimen; Chapter 9
  • Ethnology, Race and Trophy-hunting in the American Civil War; Chapter 10
  • Museums and Lynchings; Chapter 11
  • Savages on the Frontiers of Europe.
  • Chapter 12
  • Skull Trophies of the Pacific WarChapter 13
  • Transgressive Objects of Remembrance; Chapter 14
  • The Colonial Manhunt and the Body Parts of Bandits; Chapter 15
  • Kinship and the Enemy Body in the Vietnam War; Chapter 16
  • Returning Memories; Conclusion; References; Index.

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