Dark trophies: hunting and the enemy body in modern war

Contents

Introduction: dark trophies of enlightened war -- Schemas and metaphors -- Hunting and war: the European history of a metaphor -- Bodies and class in the Age of Revolution -- The European Enlightenment and the origins of scalping -- Skulls and science -- The collecting expedition as a magical quest -- Skulls and scientific collecting in the Victorian military -- From hero to specimen: phrenology, craniology and the American Indian skull -- Ethnology, race and trophy-hunting in the American Civil War -- Museums and lynchings: bodies and the exhibition of order -- Savages on the frontiers of Europe -- Skull trophies of the Pacific War -- Transgressive objects of remembrance -- The colonial manhunt and the body parts of bandits: hunting schemas in British counter-insurgency -- Kinship and the enemy body in the Vietnam War -- Returning memories -- Conclusion.