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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Berghahn Books,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.