Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Material Culture Studies
- Cambridge Handbooks in Anthropology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Material Culture Studies
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Case Studies
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Suitcases, Selfies, and the Global Environment
- Part I Scholarly Genealogies
- Part II Relevant Pasts
- 4 Disciplinary Complicity: The University, Material Culture Studies, and Global Environmental Crisis
- 5 Social Justice
- 6 Engagement and the Politics of Authority
- 7 War and Violence
- 8 Material Culture and Heritage
- 9 Material Culture and the Politics and Profession of Preservation and Representation
- 10 Reenacting the Past
- 11 Indigenous Heritage
- Part III Engaging Across Cultures and Around the Globe
- Part IV Cultural Production and Reproduction
- Part V Experience
- Part VI Materiality and the Digital World
- Bibliography
- Index
7 - War and Violence
How to Rescue a Wartime Artifact
from Part II - Relevant Pasts
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 June 2022
Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Material Culture Studies
- Cambridge Handbooks in Anthropology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Material Culture Studies
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Case Studies
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Suitcases, Selfies, and the Global Environment
- Part I Scholarly Genealogies
- Part II Relevant Pasts
- 4 Disciplinary Complicity: The University, Material Culture Studies, and Global Environmental Crisis
- 5 Social Justice
- 6 Engagement and the Politics of Authority
- 7 War and Violence
- 8 Material Culture and Heritage
- 9 Material Culture and the Politics and Profession of Preservation and Representation
- 10 Reenacting the Past
- 11 Indigenous Heritage
- Part III Engaging Across Cultures and Around the Globe
- Part IV Cultural Production and Reproduction
- Part V Experience
- Part VI Materiality and the Digital World
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
How does conflict (both enacted and potential) change, shape, destroy and otherwise modify and affect material culture? In addition to these questions, this chapter examines how “things” can act as propaganda, as mechanisms of survival, and as creations of the destabilizing and stabilizing effects of war, peace, and the gray area in between. As scholars increasingly interrogate the meaning and chronology of war, peace, occupation, and the definition of categories such as refugee, how do they incorporate material culture?
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Cambridge Handbook of Material Culture Studies , pp. 146 - 166Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022