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War, Technology, Anthropology / ed. by Koen Stroeken.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis ; 13Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2011]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (158 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780857455871
  • 9780857455888
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.6 6 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: War-Technology Anthropology -- Part I: Perpetuating War -- Drones in the Tribal Zone: Virtual War and Losing Hearts and Minds in the Af-Pak War -- The Dead of Night: Chaos and Spectacide of Nocturnal Combat in the Iraq War -- World in a Bottle: Prognosticating Insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan -- Anthropology As We Know It: A Casualty of War? -- Part II: Globalizing War -- Games without Tears, Wars without Frontiers -- Music, Aesthetics, and the Technologies of Online War -- Humanitarian Death and the Magic of Global War in Uganda -- Resident Violence: Miner Mwanga Magic as a War-Technology Anthropology -- The Magic of Martyrdom in Palestine and Cultural Imaginaries for Killing -- Contributors
Summary: Technologies of the allied warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan, such as remote-controlled drones and night vision goggles, allow the user to “virtualize” human targets. This coincides with increased civilian casualties and a perpetuation of the very insecurity these technologies are meant to combat. This concise volume of research and reflections from different regions across Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa, observes how anthropology operates as a technology of war. It tackles recent theories of humans in society colluding with imperialist claims, including anthropologists who have become  involved professionally in warfare through their knowledge of “cultures,” renamed as “human terrain systems.” The chapters link varied yet crucial domains of inquiry: from battlefields technologies, military-driven scientific policy, and economic warfare, to martyrdom cosmology shifts, media coverage of “distant” wars, and the virtualizing techniques and “war porn” soundtracks of the gaming industry.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: War-Technology Anthropology -- Part I: Perpetuating War -- Drones in the Tribal Zone: Virtual War and Losing Hearts and Minds in the Af-Pak War -- The Dead of Night: Chaos and Spectacide of Nocturnal Combat in the Iraq War -- World in a Bottle: Prognosticating Insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan -- Anthropology As We Know It: A Casualty of War? -- Part II: Globalizing War -- Games without Tears, Wars without Frontiers -- Music, Aesthetics, and the Technologies of Online War -- Humanitarian Death and the Magic of Global War in Uganda -- Resident Violence: Miner Mwanga Magic as a War-Technology Anthropology -- The Magic of Martyrdom in Palestine and Cultural Imaginaries for Killing -- Contributors

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Technologies of the allied warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan, such as remote-controlled drones and night vision goggles, allow the user to “virtualize” human targets. This coincides with increased civilian casualties and a perpetuation of the very insecurity these technologies are meant to combat. This concise volume of research and reflections from different regions across Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa, observes how anthropology operates as a technology of war. It tackles recent theories of humans in society colluding with imperialist claims, including anthropologists who have become  involved professionally in warfare through their knowledge of “cultures,” renamed as “human terrain systems.” The chapters link varied yet crucial domains of inquiry: from battlefields technologies, military-driven scientific policy, and economic warfare, to martyrdom cosmology shifts, media coverage of “distant” wars, and the virtualizing techniques and “war porn” soundtracks of the gaming industry.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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