An Anthropology of War : : Views from the Frontline /

An Anthropology of War : : Views from the Frontline / / ed. 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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MitwirkendeR:
Bornstein, Avram,
Farmer, Paul E.,
Ferguson, R. Brian,
Gill, Lesley,
Manz, Beatriz,
Nordstrom, Carolyn,
Reyna, Stephen,
Vasquez, Jose N.,
Waterston, Alisse,
HerausgeberIn:
Waterston, Alisse,
Place / Publishing House:New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (204 p.)
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Table of 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

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