Iraq at a Distance : : What Anthropologists Can Teach Us About the War /

Iraq at a Distance : : What Anthropologists Can Teach Us About the War / / ed. by Antonius C. G. M. Robben.

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The Iraq War has cost innumerable lives, caused vast material destruction, and inflicted suffering on millions of people. Iraq at a Distance: What Anthropology Can Teach Us About the War focuses on the plight of the Iraqi people, caught since 2003 in the carnage between U.S. and British troops on on...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Package Complete Collection
MitwirkendeR:
Al-Ali, Nadje,
Al-Marashi, Ibrahim,
Hinton, Alexander Laban,
Peteet, Julie,
Robben, Antonius C. G. M.,
Sluka, Jeffrey A.,
HerausgeberIn:
Robben, Antonius C. G. M.,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2010]
©2010
Year of Publication:2010
Language:English
Series:The Ethnography of Political Violence
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Physical Description:1 online resource (200 p.) :; 3 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Ethnographic Imagination at a Distance: An Introduction to the Anthropological Study of the Iraq War
  • Chapter 1. ''Night Fell on a Different World'': Dangerous Visions and the War on Terror, a Lesson from Cambodia
  • Chapter 2. The War on Terror and Women's Rights in Iraq
  • Chapter 3. The War on Terror, Dismantling, and the Construction of Place: An Ethnographic Perspective from Palestine
  • Chapter 4. Losing Hearts and Minds in the ''War on Terrorism''
  • Chapter 5. Mimesis in a War Among the People: What Argentina's Dirty War Reveals About Counterinsurgency in Iraq
  • Epilogue
  • Contributors
  • Index

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