An anthropology of war : views from frontline / / edited by Alisse Waterston
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| Titolo: |
An anthropology of war : views from frontline / / edited by Alisse Waterston
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Berghahn Books, , 2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (202 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 303.6/6 |
| Soggetto topico: | War and society |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Persona (resp. second.): | WaterstonAlisse <1951-> |
| Note generali: | "Originally published as a special issue of Social analysis, volume 52, issue 2"--T.p. verso. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 rea |
| Titolo autorizzato: | An anthropology of war |
| ISBN: | 0-85745-522-2 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910493169703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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