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Warrior ways : explorations in modern military folklore /
Warrior Ways is one of the first book-length explorations of military folklife, and focuses on the lore produced by modern American warriors, illuminating the ways in which members of the armed services creatively express the complex experience of military life. In short, lively essays, contributors...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Logan, Utah :
Utah State University Press,
[2012]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I. Deploying
- The things they bring to war / Carol Burke
- Know they enemy: camel spider stories among US troops in the Middle East / Justin M. Oswald
- "Folk-folkloristics": reflections on American soldiers' responses to Afghan traditional culture / Eric A. Eliason
- II. Sounding off
- Where is Jody now? Reconsidering military marching chants / Richard Allen Burns
- Upper echelons and boots on the ground: the case for diglossia in the military / Alinor Levy
- Sea service slang: informal language of the Navy and Coast Guard / Angus Kress Gillespie
- III. Belonging
- Taser to the 'Nads: brutal embrace of queerness in military practice / Mickey Weems
- Making lemondade: military spouses' worldview as a coping mechanism / Kristi Young
- Oppositional positioning: the military identification of young antiwar Veterans / Lisa Gilman
- IV. Remembering
- Colonel Bogey's march through folk and popular culture / Greg Kelley
- Soldier snaps / Jay Mechling
- "America's best": cultural poaching on "Ballad of the Green Berets" / Tad Tuleja.