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The remains of war : bodies, politics, and the search for American soldiers unaccounted for in Southeast Asia / Thomas M. Hawley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hawley, Thomas M., 1970-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Politics, history, and culture.
- Politics, history, and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Missing in action--United States.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Casualties--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (297 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An exploration of how US' efforts to sacralize and repatriate the remains of some 2,000 soldiers killed in action in the Vietnam War might indicate some lingering corporeal and ontological uncertainties in the post-Vietnam era.
- Contents:
- Body trouble
- From unrecoverable to unaccounted for
- The body of the accounted-for soldier
- "Our stateside MIAs"
- Practices of memorialization
- The ethics of accounting.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-276) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613021830
- 9781283021838
- 1283021838
- 9780822386575
- 0822386577
- OCLC:
- 226068236
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