An anthropology of war : views from frontline / edited by Alisse Waterston.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Waterston, Alisse, 1951-

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War and society.

Physical Description:

x, 191 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

"Originally published as a special issue of Social analysis, volume 52, issue 2"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781845456221

184545622X

OCLC:

261201408