An anthropology of war : views from frontline / edited by Alisse Waterston.

As we move deeper into the twenty-first century, power, lethal force, and injustice continue to explode violently into war, and the prospects for lasting peace look even bleaker. The horrors of modern warfare - the death, dehumanization, and destruction of social and material infrastructures - have...

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Other Authors: Waterston, Alisse, 1951-
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Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.
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505 0 |a Prelude: An accountability, written in the year 2109 / Carolyn Nordstrom -- Introduction: On war and accountability / Alisse Waterston -- Ten points on war / R. Brian Ferguson -- Global warring today : "maybe somebody needs to explain" / Stephen Reyna -- Global fractures / Carolyn Nordstrom -- Seeing green : visual technology, virtual reality, and the experience of war / Jose N. Vasquez -- Military occupation as carceral society : prisons, checkpoints, and walls in the Israeli- Palestinian struggle / Avram Bornstein -- War and peace in Colombia / Lesley Gill -- The continuum of violence in post-war Guatemala / Beatriz Manz -- Mother courage and the future of war / Paul E. Farmer. 
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