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Decoding a Royal Marine Commando - The Militarized Body as Artefact (Paperback)
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Decoding a Royal Marine Commando - The Militarized Body as Artefact (Paperback)
Series: Material Culture and Modern Conflict
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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 this heritage, Mark Burchell
offers a unique method of understanding how the Royal Marines draw
upon this material culture in order to help transform ordinary
labour power to political agency comprising acts of controlled and
sustained violence. He demonstrates how a barrage of objects and
items - including uniforms, weapons, landscapes, architecture,
personal kit, drills, rituals, and iconography - are deployed in
order successfully to integrate the recruits into the Royal
Marines' culture. It is argued that this material culture is a
vital tool with which to imprint the military's own image on new
recruits as they embark on a process of de-individualisation.
Having been granted unprecedented access to the Commando Training
Centre at Lympstone as an anthropologist, Burchell observed an
intake of recruits throughout their demanding and exhausting
year-long training programme. The resulting book presents to the
academic community for the first time, a theorised in-depth account
of a relatively unexplored social community and how its material
culture creates and reifies new military identities. This
path-breaking interdisciplinary analysis provides fresh
understanding of the multiple processes of military enculturation
through a meticulous revision of the relationships that exist
between disciplinary and punishment practices; violence and
masculinity; narratives and personhood; and will explore how these
issues are understood by recruits through their practical
application of body to physical labour, and by the cues of their
surrounding material culture.
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