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War has been pervasive in the 20th century and the 21st century seems to hold little promise of improvement. War is still one of the world's most destructive forces, which on a daily basis touches the lives of millions of people. To increase our understanding of the pervasiveness and destructiveness of the institution of war, we need to mobilize all possible frameworks of knowledge. Cultural War Studies has an important role to play in adding to this knowledge, by putting the critical vocabulary of Cultural Studies to good use to analyze the constructions that push us towards a glorified killing of our fellow men and then try to make us forget the intensity and durability of the trauma. The first part of this book focuses on the diversity of media that generate meanings and definitions of past and contemporary wars. These chapters are not restricted to the more traditional analyses of media content, but utilize these media products to reflect on the contemporary cultural condition(s) in the U.S.A. and Europe. The second part of the book moves (at least partially) away from media representations and focuses on torture and incarceration. Although in this part the materiality of war and conflict is very present, these analyses again show the importance of the constructions of enemy identities and of (the acceptability of) violent practices. The third and final part of the book is related to memory and trauma. A series of 20th century conflicts and wars are revisited to demonstrate the cultural durability of war and the interconnection of these wars with present-day discourses and practices through the dialectics of remembering, commemorating and forgetting.
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• Warfare and Society: Archaeological and Social Anthropological Perspectives-- Conceptions of Warfare in Western Thought and Research: An Introduction-- Laying Aside the Spear: Hobbesian Warre and the Maussian Gift-- Aspects of War and Warfare in Western Philosophy and History-- Archaeology and War: Presentations of Warriors and Peasants in Archaeological Interpretations-- 'Total War' and the Ethnography of New Guinea-- War as Practice, Power, and Processor: A Framework for the Analysis of War and Social Structural Change-- Warfare and pre-State Societies: An Introduction-- War and Peace in Societies without Central Power: Theories and Perspectives-- Fighting and Feuding in Neolithic and Bronze Age Britain and Ireland-- The Impact of Egalitarian Institutions on Warfare among the Enga: An Ethnohistorical Perspective-- Warfare and Exchange in a Melanesian Society before Colonial Pacification: The Case of Manus, Papua New Guinea-- Warfare and Colonialism in the Bismarck Archipelago, Papua New Guinea-- Warfare and the State: An Introduction-- War and State Formation: What is the Connection?-- Warrior Bands, War Lords, and the Birth of Tribes and States in the First Millennium AD in Middle Europe-- Chiefs Made War and War Made States? War and Early State Formation in Ancient Fiji and Hawaii-- Warfare in Africa: Reframing State and 'Culture' as Factors of Violent Conflict-- Warfare, Rituals, and Mass Graves: An Introduction-- Semiologies of Subjugation: The Ritualisation of War-Prisoners in Later European Antiquity-- Rebellion, Combat, and Massacre: A Medieval Mass Grave at Sandbjerg near Naestved in Denmark-- Society and the Structure of Violence: A Story Told by Middle Bronze Age Human Remains from Central Norway-- The Dead of Tormarton: Bronze Age Combat Victims?-- Funerary Rituals and Warfare in the Early Bronze Age Nitra Culture of Slovakia and Moravia-- Warfare, Discourse, and Identity: An Introduction-- Warriors and Warrior Institutions in Copper Age Europe-- From Gilgamesh to Terminator: The Warrior as Masculine Ideal: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives-- The (Dis)Comfort of Conformism: Post-War Nationalism and Coping with Powerlessness in Croatian Villages-- Violence and Identification in a Bosnian Town: An Empirical Critique of Structural Theories of Violence-- War as Field and Site: Anthropologists, Archaeologists, and the Violence of Maya Cultural Continuities-- Warfare, Weaponry, and Material Culture: An Introduction-- Swords and Other Weapons in the Nordic Bronze Age: Technology, Treatment, and Contexts-- What Does the Context of Deposition and Frequency of Bronze Age Weaponry Tell Us about the Function of Weapons?-- Warfare and Gender According to Homer: An Archaeology of an Aristocratic Warrior Culture-- Index.
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This book deals with the interrelationship between society and war seen through the analytical eyes of anthropologists and archaeologists. War is a ghastly thing, which unfortunately thrives almost everywhere in the world today. We need, therefore, to have a better understanding of what war does to people and their societies. War produces change, and archaeologists and anthropologists are analytically equipped to pinpoint its direction, patterning, scale and content. The perspective - and filter - of time provides one important tool, while context and comparison provide other tools. Looking at the history of war studies, war is quite often perceived of and treated as something set aside from other practices; almost personified. However, the results published in this book allow us to say that it is never autonomous and self-regulating. War always forms part of something else. Numerous questions arise, and at least some answers - often tentative and multifaceted - are provided in the twenty-eight studies included in the book. They certainly add to an ongoing debate, hopefully qualifying it as well.
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• 1. Krieg und Frieden im industriellen Zeitalter.
• 2. Krieg und Frieden in der modernen Staatenwelt.