02751nam 2200505 450 991081456020332120170821193013.00-85745-522-210.1515/9780857455222(CKB)2670000000546832(EBL)1331224(SSID)ssj0001133363(PQKBManifestationID)12480784(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001133363(PQKBWorkID)11158254(PQKB)10040795(MiAaPQ)EBC1331224(DE-B1597)637216(DE-B1597)9780857455222(EXLCZ)99267000000054683220080930e20092008 uy| 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAn anthropology of war views from frontline /edited by Alisse WaterstonNew York :Berghahn Books,2009.1 online resource (202 p.)"Originally published as a special issue of Social analysis, volume 52, issue 2"--T.p. verso.1-84545-622-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Prelude: An accountability, written in the year 2109 / Carolyn Nordstrom -- Introduction: On war and accountability / Alisse Waterston -- Ten points on war / R. Brian Ferguson -- Global warring today : "maybe somebody needs to explain" / Stephen Reyna -- Global fractures / Carolyn Nordstrom -- Seeing green : visual technology, virtual reality, and the experience of war / Jose N. Vasquez -- Military occupation as carceral society : prisons, checkpoints, and walls in the Israeli- Palestinian struggle / Avram Bornstein -- War and peace in Colombia / Lesley Gill -- The continuum of violence in post-war Guatemala / Beatriz Manz -- Mother courage and the future of war / Paul E. Farmer. 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 done little to bring an end to armed conflict. In this volume, leading chroniclers of war provide thoughtful and powerful essays that reflect on their ethnographic work at the frontlines. The contributors recount not only what they have seen and heard in war zones but also what is being reaWar and societyWar and society.303.6/6Waterston Alisse1951-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910814560203321An anthropology of war4030155UNINA