- 244 pages
- English
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About this book
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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Table of contents
- Dark Trophies
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 - Schemas and Metaphors
- Chapter 2 - Hunting and War
- 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
- Chapter 9 - Ethnology, Race and Trophy-hunting in the American Civil War
- Chapter 10 - Museums and Lynchings
- 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
- Chapter 15 - Kinship and the Enemy Body in the Vietnam War
- Chapter 16 - Returning Memories
- Conclusion
- References
- Index