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1 online resource |
| Contents |
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 |
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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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Military trophies -- History
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Military history, Modern.
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HISTORY -- Military -- Other.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Military Science.
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Military history, Modern
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Military trophies
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Trophäe Siegeszeichen
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Kopfjäger
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Krieg
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Krieg.
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Trophäe.
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Gefallener.
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Körper.
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Schädel.
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Westliche Welt
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780857454997 |
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0857454994 |
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