Material Culture and Modern Conflict
About the Book Series
The Material Culture and Modern Conflict series adopts a genuinely interdisciplinary approach to re-appraise the material legacy of twentieth and twenty-first century conflict around the world. It offers a radical departure in the study of modern conflict, proving a truly interdisciplinary forum that draws upon archaeology, anthropology, military and cultural history, art history, cultural geography, and museum and heritage studies.
Decoding a Royal Marine Commando: The Militarized Body as Artefact
1st Edition
By Mark Burchell
June 30, 2020
With a heritage dating back to the mid-seventeenth century, the Royal Marines have accrued a rich history of rituals, artefacts and material culture that is consciously deployed in order to define and shape the institution both historically and going forward into an uncertain future. Drawing upon ...
The Poetics of Conflict Experience: Materiality and Embodiment in Second World War Italy
1st Edition
By Sarah De Nardi
June 28, 2018
Seventy years after the end of the Second World War we still do not fully appreciate the intensity of the lived experience of people and communities involved in resistance movements and subjected to German occupation. Yet the enduring conjunction between individuals, things and place cannot be ...
Conflict Landscapes and Archaeology from Above
1st Edition
Edited
By Birger Stichelbaut, David Cowley
March 09, 2018
The study of conflict archaeology has developed rapidly over the last decade, fuelled in equal measure by technological advances and creative analytical frameworks. Nowhere is this truer than in the inter-disciplinary fields of archaeological practice that combine traditional sources such as ...