Contested Objects (eBook, ePUB)

Material Memories of the Great War
Redaktion: Saunders, Nicholas J.; Cornish, Paul

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Contested Objects explores the social worlds of First World War material culture, and investigates its archaeological and anthropological intersections with identity, memory, landscape and heritage.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135256708
• Artikelnr.: 41499038

Autorenporträt

Nicholas J. Saunders, Paul Cornish

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. 'Just a Boyish Habit'...? British and Commonwealth War
Trophies in the First World War 2. Shaping Matter, Meaning and Mentalities:
The German Steel Helmet from Artefact to Afterlife 3. The Great War 'Trench
Club': Typology, Use and Cultural Meaning 4. The Journey Back: On the
Nature of Donations to the In Flanders Fields Museum 5. 'Brothers in Arms'
- Masonic Artefacts of the First World War and its Aftermath 6. Subversive
Material: African Embodiments of Modern War 7. Medals, Memory and Meaning:
Symbolism and Cultural Significance of Great War Medals 8. Distinguishing
the Uniform: British Military Heraldry and Group Identity 9. The Consumer
Sphinx: From French Trench to Parisian Market 10. 'The Returned Soldiers
Bug': Making the Shrine of Remembrance, Melbourne 11. Exploring a Language
of Grief in First World War Headstone Inscriptions 12. 'P'raps I Shall See
You...': Recognition of Loved Ones in Non-fiction Film of the First World
War 13. 'A Few Broad Stripes': Perception, Deception and the 'Dazzle Ship'
Phenomenon of WWI 14. Message and Materiality in Mesopotamia, 1916-17: My
Grandfather's Diary, Social Commemoration and the Experience of War 15.
Postcards from the Past: War, Landscape, and Place in Argonne, France 16.
'Calculating the Future': Panoramic Sketching, Reconnaissance Drawing and
the Material Trace of War 17. Archaeology of the Great War: The Flemish
Experience 18. 'Slowly Our Ghosts Drag Home': Human Remains from the
Heidenkopf, Serre, Somme, France 19. Great War Archaeology on the Glaciers
of the Alps 20. Training for Trench Warfare: The Archaeological Evidence
from Salisbury Plain