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Prisoner of War Archaeology in an Interdisciplinary Context

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Prisoners of War

Part of the book series: Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology ((CGHA,volume 1))

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The archaeology of PoWs offers valuable insights that can be valued not only within archaeology and anthropology but also more widely across cultural and military history, many of the creative arts, and memory and heritage studies. The archaeologists’ experience of studying and interpreting material culture gives a unique perspective on the built environments and products of internment. This is illustrated here under three broad thematic headings of confinement and embodiment, ethnicity and identity, and heritage and the commodification of the past, as examples of the ways in which PoW archaeology can contribute to broader themes.

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Mytum, H. (2013). Prisoner of War Archaeology in an Interdisciplinary Context. In: Mytum, H., Carr, G. (eds) Prisoners of War. Contributions To Global Historical Archaeology, vol 1. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4166-3_18

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