Mastering Soldiers : : Conflict, Emotions, and the Enemy in an Israeli Army Unit / / Eyal Ben-Ari.
Studies of the military that deal with the actual experience of troops in the field are still rare in the social sciences. In fact, this ethnographic study of an elite unit in the Israeli Defense Force is the only one of its kind. As an officer of this unit and a professional anthropologist, the aut...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [1998] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 1998 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New Directions in Anthropology ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (160 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Illustrations
- Introduction
- Interlude 1: The Tenor of Military Language
- 1. The Military, Anthropology and Organizational Culture
- Interlude 2: Camaraderie and Fellowship
- 2. The Unit: An Infantry Battalion
- Interlude 3: Action, Fear and Fighting Men
- 3. A Model of Combat: Soldiering and Emotional Control
- Interlude 4: In the Field
- 4. The Model in Use: The Battalion and Other Units
- Interlude 5: Soldiering the Intifada
- 5. Enemies
- Interlude 6: A Letter to the Men
- 6. Models of Motivation
- Interlude 7: The Dividing Line Between Officers and Men
- 7. Civilian Lives: Emotions, Control, and Manhood
- Interlude 8: Straight Talk and Feelings
- 8. Concluding Considerations
- Epilogue: My Military: A Disappearing World?
- Appendix I: Fieldwork and the Ethnographic Approach
- Appendix II: Notes on the Methodology of Interpretation
- Appendix III: Folk and Scientific Models
- Bibliography
- Index