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Informationen zum Autor Koen Stroeken is an Associate Professor of Africanist Anthropology at Ghent University. Committed to the value of reflexivity, he published most recently Moral Power: The Magic of Witchcraft (Berghahn Books, 2010), which is based on fieldwork in rural Tanzania. Klappentext Technologies of the allied warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan, such as remote-controlled drones and night vision goggles, allow the user to "virtualize" human targets. This coincides with increased civilian casualties and a perpetuation of the very insecurity these technologies are meant to combat. This concise volume of research and reflections from different regions across Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa, observes how anthropology operates as a technology of war. It tackles recent theories of humans in society colluding with imperialist claims, including anthropologists who have become involved professionally in warfare through their knowledge of "cultures," renamed as "human terrain systems." The chapters link varied yet crucial domains of inquiry: from battlefields technologies, military-driven scientific policy, and economic warfare, to martyrdom cosmology shifts, media coverage of "distant" wars, and the virtualizing techniques and "war porn" soundtracks of the gaming industry. Zusammenfassung Technologies of the allied warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan, such as remote-controlled drones and night vision goggles, allow the user to "virtualize" human targets. This coincides with increased civilian casualties and a perpetuation of the very insecurity these technologies are meant to combat. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: War Technology Anthropology Koen Stroeken Part I: Perpetuating War Chapter 1. Drones in the Tribal Zone: Virtual War and Losing Hearts and Minds in the Af-Pak War Jeffrey A. Sluka Chapter 2. The Dead of Night: Chaos and Spectacide of Nocturnal Combat in the Iraq War Antonius C.G.M. Robben Chapter 3. World in a Bottle: Prognosticating Insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan Roberto J. González Chapter 4. Anthropology As We Know It - A Casualty of War? R. Brian Ferguson Part II: Globalizing War Chapter 5. Games Without Tears, Wars Without Frontiers Robertson Allen Chapter 6. Music, Aesthetics, and the Technologies of Online War Matthew Sumera Chapter 7. Humanitarian Death and the Magic of Global War in Uganda Sverker Finnström Chapter 8. Resident Violence: Miner mwanga magic as a war technology anthropology Koen Stroeken Chapter 9. The Magic of Martyrdom and Cultural Imaginaries in Palestine Neil L. Whitehead and Nasser Abufarha ...
