"Their Flag and Skulls Are Ours": Corporeal Trophy Taking in the Pacific War

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dc.contributor.advisorHanes, Jeffreyen_US
dc.contributor.authorErickson, Lucasen_US
dc.creatorErickson, Lucasen_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-12-07T23:13:40Z
dc.date.available2014-12-29T21:12:31Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.description.abstractThis thesis explores the taking of Japanese remains as trophies by American servicemen during the Second World War in the Pacific. It examines the historical and contemporary motives for American trophy taking in modern warfare and shows that corporeal trophy taking was both prevalent and multifaceted and how Japanese war materials and bodies were repurposed into trophied objects that were recorded, kept, displayed, exchanged, and even celebrated both in the battlefield and on the home front. This study also recognizes and analyzes relatively new and useful sources of evidence, such as recently published memoirs, artifacts, and digital social media, to expand our understanding of corporeal trophy taking as it occurred during the Pacific War.en_US
dc.description.embargo10000-01-01
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1794/12541
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of Oregonen_US
dc.rightsAll Rights Reserved.en_US
dc.subjectCorporeal Trophiesen_US
dc.subjectPacific Waren_US
dc.subjectWorld War IIen_US
dc.title"Their Flag and Skulls Are Ours": Corporeal Trophy Taking in the Pacific Waren_US
dc.typeElectronic Thesis or Dissertationen_US

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