Dark Trophies : : Hunting and the Enemy Body in Modern War / / Simon Harrison.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Harrison, Simon,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (244 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; 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 American 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 --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780857454997; 9783110998283
• DOI: 10.1515/9780857454997?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Simon Harrison.

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.