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Virtual war and magical death : technologies and imaginaries for terror and killing / Neil L. Whitehead and Sverker Finnström, eds.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cultures and practice of violence series.
- The cultures and practice of violence series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- War and society.
- War and civilization.
- War--Technological innovations.
- War.
- Technology--Anthropological aspects.
- Technology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (301 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The contributors to this provocative collection scrutinize the relations between anthropology and contemporary global war, contending that modern high-tech warfare is analogous to rituals of magic and sorcery, and examining the U.S. military's exploitation of ethnographic research.
- Contents:
- Virtual war and magical death: technologies and imaginaries for terror and killing / Neil L. Whitehead and Sverker Finnström
- Ethnography, knowledge, torture and silence / Neil L. Whitehead
- The role of culture in wars waged by robots: connecting drones, anthropology, and human terrain system's prehistory / David Price
- Cybernetic crystal ball: "forecasting" insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan / Roberto J. González
- Full spectrum: the military invasion of anthropology / R. Brian Ferguson
- Today he is no more: magic, intervention, and global war in Uganda / Sverker Finnström
- The hostile gaze: night vision and the immediation of nocturnal combat in vietnam and Iraq / Antonius C.G.M. Robben
- Virtual soldiers, cognitive laborers / Robertson Allen
- Virtual war in the tribal zone: airstrikes, drones and losing hearts and minds afghanistan and Pakistan / Jeffrey A. Sluka
- Propaganda, gangs and social cleansing in Guatemala / Victoria Sanford
- The soundtrack to war / Matthew Sumera
- War at large: miner magic and the carrion system / Koen Stroeken.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and (pages [251]-277) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822354352
- 0822354357
- 9780822379041
- 082237904X
- OCLC:
- 841050414
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