Bodies in Conflict: Corporeality, Materiality, and Transformation

Author:   Paul Cornish (Imperial War Museum, UK) ,  Nicholas J Saunders (University of Bristol, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9780367867942


Pages:   228
Publication Date:   12 December 2019
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Paul Cornish (Imperial War Museum, UK) ,  Nicholas J Saunders (University of Bristol, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367867942


ISBN 10:   036786794
Pages:   228
Publication Date:   12 December 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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"Introduction 1. Unlawful wounding: projectiles, politics and propaganda 2. Bodies in Objects: Material culture from Sarajevo 3. CWGC’s colonial policy and World War One: ""white graves"" and Natives 4. White lies and weighted coffins: (re) materialising World War Two air-crash casualties 5. Repatriation, illegal repatriation, and expatriation of the bodies of the First World War 6. My closest enemy 7. Remembering Vietnam with Blackfeet 8. The meaning of mud: British combatants in the First World War 9. Prisoner clothing in Nazi concentration camps 1933-1945 10. Soldiers of the Great War: Archaeololgical investigations of the A19 Motorway extension 11. Material culture and the ‘after-care’ of disabled soldiers in First World War Britain 12. The black male body in the white imagination during the First World War 13. Absent Bodies: The fate of the vanquished in the Spanish Civil War 14. In their shoes: The conservation and display of victim’s shoes at the United States Holocaust Memorial 15. Men in Pain: Silence, Stories and Soldiers’ Bodies 16. Making the Soldier Body: Training in the Royal Marine Commandos"

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Paul Cornish is a Senior Curator at the Imperial War Museum. He is currently working on the creation of a new permanent First World War gallery, to open in 2014. He has co-organised five IWM-based international conferences on the material culture of conflict with Nicholas J Saunders and has co-edited the volume Contested Objects published by Routledge in 2009. Nicholas J Saunders is Senior Lecturer at Bristol University, Honorary Reader in Material Culture at University College London, and co-director of two long-term First World War projects: the ‘Great Arab Revolt Archaeological Project’ (Jordan), and the ‘Isonzo Valley Conflict Landscapes Project’ (Slovenia/Italy). Between 1998 and 2004, he was British Academy Senior Research Fellow at University College London, making the first anthropological study of the First World War. Since 1999 he has published many academic articles and books on the archaeology and anthropology of modern conflict.

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