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An Anthropology of War : Views from the Frontline / ed. by Alisse Waterston.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2008]Copyright date: ©2008Description: 1 online resource (204 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781845456221
  • 9780857455222
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.6/6
LOC classification:
  • HM554 .A68 2009
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prelude: An Accountability, Written in the Year 2109 -- Introduction: On War and Accountability -- Chapter 1 Ten Points on War -- Chapter 2 Global Warring Today “Maybe Somebody Needs to Explain” -- Chapter 3 Global Fractures -- Chapter 4 Seeing Green Visual Technology, Virtual Reality, and the Experience of War -- Chapter 5 Military Occupation as Carceral Society Prisons, Checkpoints, and Walls in the Israeli-Palestinian Struggle -- Chapter 6 War and Peace in Colombia -- Chapter 7 The Continuum of Violence in Post-war Guatemala -- Chapter 8 Mother Courage and the Future of War -- Index
Summary: 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 done little to bring an end to armed conflict. In this volume, leading chroniclers of war provide thoughtful and powerful essays that reflect on their ethnographic work at the frontlines. The contributors recount not only what they have seen and heard in war zones but also what is being read, studied, analyzed and remembered in such diverse locations as Colombia and Guatemala, Israel and Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Haiti. In detailed reports from the field, they reflect on the important issue of “accountability” and offer explanations to discern causes, patterns, and practices of war. Through this unique lens, the contributors provide the insight and analysis needed for a deeper understanding of one of the greatest issues of our times. Contributors: Avram Bornstein, Paul E. Farmer, R. Brian Ferguson, Lesley Gill, Beatriz Manz, Carolyn Nordstrom, Stephen Reyna, Jose N. Vasquez
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prelude: An Accountability, Written in the Year 2109 -- Introduction: On War and Accountability -- Chapter 1 Ten Points on War -- Chapter 2 Global Warring Today “Maybe Somebody Needs to Explain” -- Chapter 3 Global Fractures -- Chapter 4 Seeing Green Visual Technology, Virtual Reality, and the Experience of War -- Chapter 5 Military Occupation as Carceral Society Prisons, Checkpoints, and Walls in the Israeli-Palestinian Struggle -- Chapter 6 War and Peace in Colombia -- Chapter 7 The Continuum of Violence in Post-war Guatemala -- Chapter 8 Mother Courage and the Future of War -- Index

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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 done little to bring an end to armed conflict. In this volume, leading chroniclers of war provide thoughtful and powerful essays that reflect on their ethnographic work at the frontlines. The contributors recount not only what they have seen and heard in war zones but also what is being read, studied, analyzed and remembered in such diverse locations as Colombia and Guatemala, Israel and Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Haiti. In detailed reports from the field, they reflect on the important issue of “accountability” and offer explanations to discern causes, patterns, and practices of war. Through this unique lens, the contributors provide the insight and analysis needed for a deeper understanding of one of the greatest issues of our times. Contributors: Avram Bornstein, Paul E. Farmer, R. Brian Ferguson, Lesley Gill, Beatriz Manz, Carolyn Nordstrom, Stephen Reyna, Jose N. Vasquez

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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