Dark trophies
Subtitle: hunting and the enemy body in modern war
By: Simon Harrison
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780857454980; 9780857454997
Subjects: Military trophies; Modern Military history; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: dark trophies of enlightened war; title: Schemas and metaphors; title: Hunting and war: the European history of a metaphor; title: Bodies and class in the Age of Revolution; title: The European enlightenment and the origins of scalping; title: Skulls and science; title: The collecting expedition as a magical quest; title: Skulls and scientific collecting in the Victorian military; title: From hero to specimen: phrenology, craniology and the Indian skull; title: Ethnology, race and trophy-hunting in the American Civil War; title: Museums and lynchings: bodies and the exhibition of order; title: Savages on the frontiers of Europe; title: Skull trophies of the Pacific War; title: Transgressive objects of remembrance; title: The colonial manhunt and the body parts of bandits: hunting schemas in British counter-insurgency; title: Kinship and the enemy body in the Vietnam War; title: Returning memories; title: Conclusion.