Practicing Military Anthropology : : Beyond Expectations and Traditional Boundaries / / ed. by Robert A. Rubinstein, Clementine Fujimura, Kerry Fosher.

• MitwirkendeR: Fosher, Kerry,; Fujimura, Clementine,; Glicken Turnley, Jessica,; Holmes-Eber, Paula,; Rubinstein, Robert A.,; Rush, Laurie W.,; Varhola, Christopher,
• HerausgeberIn: Fosher, Kerry,; Fujimura, Clementine,; Rubinstein, Robert A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2012]; Kumarian Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (153 p.)

The relationship between anthropologists and the US military has generated many heated discussions—at professional meetings and in the pages of scholarly books and journals—much of it based on supposition rather than empirical evidence. The debates raise some fundamental questions: Who are military anthropologists? What do they do? In response, the authors of Practicing Military Anthropology offer deeply personal accounts of their paths to becoming military anthropologists, what their choices have meant both professionally and personally, and the challenges that they have confronted throughout their careers.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: Exploring Military Anthropology -- 1 Archaeological Ethics and Working for the Military -- 2 “Living the Dream”: One Military Anthropologist’s Initiation -- 3 A Day in the Life of the Marine Corps Professor of Operational Culture -- 4 The Road Turnley Took -- 5 Pebbles in the Headwaters: Working Within Military Intelligence -- 6 Ethnicity and Shifting Identity: The Importance of Cultural Specialists in US Military Operations -- 7 Master Narratives, Retrospective Attribution, and Ritual Pollution in Anthropology’s Engagements With the Military -- References -- Editors and Contributors -- Index