Dark Trophies
- Authors
- Harrison, Simon
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- ISBN
- 9780857454980
- Date
- 2012-06-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 2.18 MB
- Lang
- en
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.