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Dark Trophies: Hunting and the Enemy Body in Modern War

By Simon Harrison

Book information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2012
ISBN
9780857454997
DOI
10.1515/9780857454997
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1458078 bytes)
Pages
244\244
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-20 04:13:52

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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