Virtual War and Magical Death - Technologies and Imaginaries for Terror and Killing

Informationen zum Autor Neil L. Whitehead and Sverker Finnström, eds. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction: Virtual War and Magical Death / Neil L. Whitehead and Sverker Finnström 1 1. Ethnography, Knowledge, Torture, and Silence / Neil L. Whitehead 26 2. The Role of Culture in Wars Waged by Robots: Connecting Drones, Anthropology, and Human Terrain System's Prehistory / David Price 46 3. Cybernetic Crystal Ball: "Forecasting" Insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan / Roberto J. González 65 4. Full Spectrum: The Military Invasion of Anthropology / R. Brian Ferguson 85 5. Today He Is No More: Magic, Intervention, and Global War in Uganda / Sverker Finnström 111 6. The Hostile Gaze: Night Vision and the Immediation of Nocturnal Combat in Vietnam and Iraq / Antonius C. G. M. Robben 132 7. Virtual Soldiers, Cognitive Laborers / Robertson Allen 152 8. Virtual Wars in the Tribal Zone: Air Strikes, Drones, Civilian Casualties, and Losing Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan and Pakistan / Jeffrey A. Sluka 171 9. Propaganda, Gangs, and Social Cleansing in Guatemala / Victoria Sanford 194 10. The Soundtrack to War / Matthew Sumera 214 11. War at Large: Miner Magic and the Carrion System / Koen Stroeken 234 References 251 Contributors 279 Index 281

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• Authors: Neil L. Finnstroem Whitehead, Neil L. Finnstrom Whitehead, WHITEHEAD NEIL EDT FINNSTROM, WHITEHEAD NEIL FINNSTROM SVERK
• Assisted by: Sverker Finnstroem (Editor), Sverker Finnstrom (Editor), Sverker Finnström (Editor), Neil L Whitehead (Editor), Neil L. Whitehead (Editor)
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.04.2013
• EAN: 9780822354352
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5435-2
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: The Cultures and Practice of Violence; Cultures and Practice of Viole; The Cultures and Practice of Violence; Cultures and Practice of Viole
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Theorie der Kriegsführung und Militärwissenschaft