ABSTRACT During the First World War in France and Belgium life on the Western Front was predominantly lived below the surface. The proliferation of hitherto unimaginably powerful weaponry rendered surface existence untenable. This retreat into the earth necessitated a complete revision of soldiers’ somatic engagement with their immediate environment. In my work as an archeologist of modern conflict landscapes, I have devised a methodology which combines archeological exploration with participant sensation or “sensory ethnography” to interrogate these complex, ambiguous and often dangerous subterranean places. In this article I show that as the war destroyed it also created new realities in which the senses were forced to work together like never before under the pressures of industrialized warfare. My work suggests how a holistic investigation (grounded in sensorality) of particular modern conflict landscapes can take the form of an ethnographic archeology, or an ethnography of the dead, demonstrating the potential for archeology and anthropology to work together in the increasingly interdisciplinary field of modern conflict studies.

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感官无人区：第一次世界大战期间的肉体和西部战线

摘要在第一次世界大战期间，法国和比利时的西线生活主要生活在地表以下。迄今为止难以想象的强大武器的扩散使地表存在难以为继。这次撤退到地球上，需要彻底改变士兵与周围环境的身体接触。在我作为现代冲突景观考古学家的工作中，我设计了一种方法，将考古探索与参与者感觉或“感官民族志”相结合，以询问这些复杂、模棱两可且通常是危险的地下场所。在这篇文章中，我表明，随着战争的摧毁，它也创造了新的现实，在工业化战争的压力下，感官被迫以前所未有的方式协同工作。