An anthropology of war : views from frontline

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-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.
Subjects:
War and society.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General.
War and society
Oorlog.
Antropologische aspecten.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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