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

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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Harrison, Simon, 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Berghahn Books, 2012.
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505 0 |a Introduction: dark trophies of enlightened war -- Schemas and metaphors -- Hunting and war: the European history of a metaphor -- Bodies and class in the Age of Revolution -- The European enlightenment and the origins of scalping -- Skulls and science -- The collecting expedition as a magical quest -- Skulls and scientific collecting in the Victorian military -- From hero to specimen: phrenology, craniology and the Indian skull -- Ethnology, race and trophy-hunting in the American Civil War -- Museums and lynchings: bodies and the exhibition of order -- Savages on the frontiers of Europe -- Skull trophies of the Pacific War -- Transgressive objects of remembrance -- The colonial manhunt and the body parts of bandits: hunting schemas in British counter-insurgency -- Kinship and the enemy body in the Vietnam War -- Returning memories -- Conclusion. 
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