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Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 510 g

Harrison

Dark Trophies

Hunting and the Enemy Body in Modern War
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-85745-498-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Hunting and the Enemy Body in Modern War

Buch, Englisch, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 510 g

ISBN: 978-0-85745-498-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books


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 misconduct among military personnel over the past two centuries, exploring its close connections with colonialism, scientific collecting and concepts of race, and how it is a model for violent power relationships between groups.

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Acknowledgements

Introduction: Dark Trophies of Enlightened War

Chapter 1. Schemas and Metaphors

Chapter 2. Hunting and War: the European History of a Metaphor

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: Phrenology, Craniology and the Indian Skull

Chapter 9. Ethnology, Race and Trophy-hunting in the American Civil War

Chapter 10. Museums and Lynchings: Bodies and the Exhibition of Order

Chapter 11. Savages on the Frontiers of Europe

Chapter 12. Skull Trophies of the Pacific War

Chapter 13. Transgressive Objects of Remembrance

Chapter 14. The Colonial Manhunt and the Body Parts of Bandits: Hunting Schemas in British Counter-insurgency

Chapter 15. Kinship and the Enemy Body in the Vietnam War

Chapter 16. Returning Memories

Conclusion

References

Figures

Figure 1a:Taboo: wife and sister

Figure 1b: Metaphor: wife and crown

Figure 2: Metaphoric and taboo relationships between social practices


Harrison, Simon
Simon Harrison is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Ulster and has carried out ethnographic fieldwork among the people of Avatip in Papua New Guinea. He is the author of, among other works, The Mask of War (Manchester University Press, 1993) and Fracturing Resemblances: Identity and Mimetic Conflict in Melanesia and the West(Berghahn Books, 2005).

Simon Harrison is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Ulster and has carried out ethnographic fieldwork among the people of Avatip in Papua New Guinea. He is the author of, among other works, The Mask of War (Manchester University Press, 1993) and Fracturing Resemblances: Identity and Mimetic Conflict in Melanesia and the West(Berghahn Books, 2005).



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