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Dark trophies : hunting and the enemy body in modern war

By Harrison , Simon

Book information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2012
ISBN
0857454986, 978-0-85745-498-0, 978-1-78238-520-2, 978-0-85745-499-7
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2279492 bytes)
Pages
233\0
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Military trophies -- History. MilModern. Military trophies.

Description

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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