Dark Trophies

Hunting and the Enemy Body in Modern War

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Simon Harrison

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Hardback

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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.

Author Biography:

Simon Harrison is Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Ulster and has carried out ethnographic fieldwork among the people of Avatip in Papua New Guinea. He is the author of, among other works, The Mask of War (Manchester University Press, 1993) and Fracturing Resemblances: Identity and Mimetic Conflict in Melanesia and the West (Berghahn Books, 2005).

Release date Australia

June 1st, 2012

Author

Simon Harrison

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational

Pages

244

Dimensions

152x229x14

ISBN-13

9780857454980

Product ID

19527419

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