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Objects of War: The Material Culture of Conflict and Displacement

Objects of War: The Material Culture of Conflict and Displacement

Auslander, Leora
Zahra, Tara

Paperback

AnthropologyHistoriographyOther Wars

ISBN10: 1501720074
ISBN13: 9781501720079
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: May 15 2018
Pages: 348
Weight: 1.12
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The book, Objects of War, illuminates the ways in which people have used things to grapple with the social, cultural, and psychological upheavals wrought by war and forced displacement.â- Utah Public Radio

Historians have become increasingly interested in material culture as both a category of analysis and as a teaching tool. And yet the profession tends to be suspicious of things; words are its stock-in-trade. What new insights can historians gain about the past by thinking about things? A central object (and consequence) of modern warfare is the radical destruction and transformation of the material world. And yet we know little about the role of material culture in the history of war and forced displacement: objects carried in flight; objects stolen on battlefields; objects expropriated, reappropriated, and remembered.

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