Virtual war and magical death : technologies and imaginaries for terror and killing / Neil L. Whitehead and Sverker Finnström, eds.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Whitehead, Neil L., Finnström, Sverker
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2013.
Series:	Cultures and practice of violence series.
Subjects:	War and society. War and civilization. War > Technological innovations. Technology > Anthropological aspects.

Table of Contents:

Virtual war and magical death : technologies and imaginaries for terror and killing / Neil L. Whitehead and Sverker Finnström
Ethnography, knowledge, torture and silence / Neil L. Whitehead
The role of culture in wars waged by robots : connecting drones, anthropology, and human terrain system's prehistory / David Price
Cybernetic crystal ball : "forecasting" insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan / Roberto J. González
Full spectrum : the military invasion of anthropology / R. Brian Ferguson
Today he is no more : magic, intervention, and global war in Uganda / Sverker Finnström
The hostile gaze : night vision and the immediation of nocturnal combat in Vietnam and Iraq / Antonius C.G.M. Robben
Virtual soldiers, cognitive laborers / Robertson Allen
Virtual war in the tribal zone : airstrikes, drones and losing hearts and minds in Afghanistan and Pakistan / Jeffrey A. Sluka
Propaganda, gangs and social cleansing in Guatemala / Victoria Sanford
The soundtrack to war / Matthew Sumera
War at large : miner magic and the carrion system / Koen Stroeken.

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