War, Technology, Anthropology: Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis
Editat de Koen Stroekenen Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 ian 2012
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0857455877
Pagini: 158
Dimensiuni: 109 x 178 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0.12 kg
Editura: BERGHAHN BOOKS INC
Seriile Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis, Critical Interventions: A Forum for Social Analysis V 13
Notă biografică
Koen Stroeken is an Associate Professor of Africanist Anthropology at Ghent University. Committed to the value of reflexivity, he published most recently Moral Power: The Magic of Witchcraft (Berghahn Books, 2010), which is based on fieldwork in rural Tanzania.
Cuprins
Introduction: War Technology Anthropology
Koen Stroeken
Part I: Perpetuating War
Chapter 1. Drones in the Tribal Zone: Virtual War and Losing Hearts and Minds in the Af-Pak War
Jeffrey A. Sluka
Chapter 2. The Dead of Night: Chaos and Spectacide of Nocturnal Combat in the Iraq War
Antonius C.G.M. Robben
Chapter 3. World in a Bottle: Prognosticating Insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan
Roberto J. González
Chapter 4. Anthropology As We Know It - A Casualty of War?
R. Brian Ferguson
Part II: Globalizing War
Chapter 5. Games Without Tears, Wars Without Frontiers
Robertson Allen
Chapter 6. Music, Aesthetics, and the Technologies of Online War
Matthew Sumera
Chapter 7. Humanitarian Death and the Magic of Global War in Uganda
Sverker Finnström
Chapter 8. Resident Violence: Miner mwanga magic as a war technology anthropology
Koen Stroeken
Chapter 9. The Magic of Martyrdom and Cultural Imaginaries in Palestine
Neil L. Whitehead and Nasser Abufarha