Practicing military anthropology : beyond expectations and traditional boundaries / edited by Robert A. Rubinstein, Kerry Fosher and Clementine Fujimura.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Rubinstein, Robert A., 1951- editor.

Fosher, Kerry, editor.

Fujimura, Clementine, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War and society.

Anthropological ethics.

Applied anthropology.

Military ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (170 p.)

Place of Publication:

Sterling, Virginia : Kumarian Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The relationship between anthropologists and the United States military has commanded a lot of attention, especially in regard to the controversial Human Terrain System (HTS) that embeds anthropologists in military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Conversations at professional meetings, in the pages of disciplinary journals and in books have been heated and frequently harshly polemical with some participants branding military anthropologists as war criminals. In this book, a number of anthropologists who have either worked with the US armed forces or who teach at military service academies reflect on what they do and teach in their military anthropologist personae. Through their personal accounts they show that the practice of military anthropology is much more than HTS and that they are more than mere "technicians of the state" as critics allege. Revealed here are thoughtful and moving essays that deal with issues of ethics, morality and professional decorum. Whether one agrees with these accounts or not, they do show that the linkage of anthropology with the military is complex and multi-faceted and the importance of frank and open exchanges of ideas for dealing with the relationship of military anthropology to the wider discipline.Essential reading for those considering anthropology as a career, those concerned about the relationship of the academy to the military and for those seeking to fathom transformations in our lives following 9/11 and the ongoing "war against terror.".

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Preface""; ""Introduction: Exploring Military Anthropology""; ""1 Archaeological Ethics and Working for the Military""; ""2 “Living the Dream�: One Military Anthropologist�s Initiation""; ""3 A Day in the Life of the Marine Corps Professor of Operational Culture""; ""4 The Road Turnley Took""; ""5 Pebbles in the Headwaters: Working Within Military Intelligence""; ""6 Ethnicity and Shifting Identity: The Importance of Cultural Specialists in US Military Operations""

""7 Master Narratives, Retrospective Attribution, and Ritual Pollution in Anthropology�s Engagements With the Military""""References""; ""Editors and Contributors""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-56549-550-0

1-56549-551-9

OCLC:

823718965