tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35081830851939716272011-04-21T19:15:17.107-07:00The Impact of Material Culture and Modernity: Views of WeaponsConservation Teamnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3508183085193971627.post-72222730412350671292008-11-23T08:15:00.000-08:002008-11-23T08:26:05.095-08:00This essay attempts to understand the hiding dynamics and symbolisms that societies use to identify weapons, and especially firearms. I examine how the post-enlightenment pretensions of modernity led to the pursuit of the industrialization, mass production and technological perfection of firearms. Also, how ideals like the defence of the nation, honour and heroism in the battlefield, created specific social meanings and an “intimate” relationship between humans and weapons, different than any other type of machinery. These aspects need to be taken into account by the archaeologist in his attempt to interpret the contemporary military past.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3508183085193971627-7222273041235067129?l=gunmodernity.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Conservation Teamnoreply@blogger.com0