An edition of Dark trophies
(2012)
Dark trophies
hunting and the enemy body in modern war
by Simon Harrison
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Dark trophies: hunting and the enemy body in modern war
2012, Berghahn Books
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0857454986 9780857454980
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Table of Contents
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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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