{"product_id":"dark-trophies-hunting-and-the-enemy-body-in-modern-war-9781782385202","title":"Dark Trophies: Hunting and the Enemy Body in","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tMany 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“Prepare to cringe. As if the horrors of combat were not enough, Harrison introduces another brutal, and ultimately fascinating, element of humans at war: military trophy taking…an important book. Highly recommended.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e· Choice\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This book should be interesting to anybody interested in modern warfare, atrocity, brutalization and war crimes. Its lucid language should make it possible to use chapters in the advanced undergraduate classroom, and the conceptual richness and broad historical sweep will inspire debate in the honours or graduate seminar.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e· Anthropological Forum\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“\u003c\/em\u003eDark Trophies \u003cem\u003eis a stark, but lucid, book. It demonstrates once again that cultural anthropology can find logic in the most morally questionable of practices, and in doing so, demonstrates that ‘self and other’ do not differ as much as the right might want us to think. Harrison makes a persuasive case: trophy-taking of human body parts by victorious soldiers is rooted in an animal-hunting schema that strips the enemy of his humanity. It is a shadow that haunts warfare, east and west, traditional and modern.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e· Oceania\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“The synthetic breadth and original analysis of\u003c\/em\u003e Dark Trophies \u003cem\u003emake it an insightful and important scholarly contribution. It shows persuasively how ‘savagery’ has persisted as a social practice within modern warfare, thus challenging ideas about the ‘civilized’ West. Historians and anthropologists of violence, warfare, the body, and race in Europe and America will find it a source of inspiration.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e· The American Historical Review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This is an extremely interesting book with a strong argument overall…It is extremely readable, makes anthropological analysis accessible and does not over-exoticize the topic. Most admirably, the author keeps a tight focus on cross-cultural analysis…The bibliography is comprehensive and will also be a very useful tool for interested readers and researchers. I can’t think of anything like it in the extant literature; it bridges colonial North American and 20th century Pacific warfare, for instance.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e· Laura Peers\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of Oxford\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This is a wonderful book, which I found quite compulsive reading, and this is due not only to the compelling and often indeed disturbing subject that it focuses on, but also to the accessible yet sophisticated writing style of its author.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e· Joost Fontein\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of Edinburgh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction:\u003c\/strong\u003e Dark Trophies of Enlightened War\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Schemas and Metaphors\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Hunting and War: the European History of a Metaphor\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3. \u003c\/strong\u003eBodies and Class in the Age of Revolution\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe European Enlightenment and the Origins of Scalping\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5. \u003c\/strong\u003eSkulls and Science\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Collecting Expedition as a Magical Quest\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Skulls and Scientific Collecting in the Victorian Military\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8. \u003c\/strong\u003eFrom Hero to Specimen: Phrenology, Craniology and the Indian Skull\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9. \u003c\/strong\u003eEthnology, Race and Trophy-hunting in the American Civil War\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10. \u003c\/strong\u003eMuseums and Lynchings: Bodies and the Exhibition of Order\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/strong\u003e Savages on the Frontiers of Europe\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12. \u003c\/strong\u003eSkull Trophies of the Pacific War\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/strong\u003e Transgressive Objects of Remembrance\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 14. \u003c\/strong\u003eThe Colonial Manhunt and the Body Parts of Bandits: Hunting Schemas in British Counter-insurgency\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 15. \u003c\/strong\u003eKinship and the Enemy Body in the Vietnam War\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 16. \u003c\/strong\u003eReturning Memories\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eConclusion\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tReferences\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eFigures\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eFigure 1a:\u003c\/strong\u003eTaboo: wife and sister\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eFigure 1b:\u003c\/strong\u003e Metaphor: wife and crown\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eFigure 2: \u003c\/strong\u003eMetaphoric and taboo relationships between social practices\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042218279255,"sku":"9781782385202","price":26.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781782385202.jpg?v=1750953489","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dark-trophies-hunting-and-the-enemy-body-in-modern-war-9781782385202","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}