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Virtual War and Magical Death : Technologies and Imaginaries for Terror and Killing /
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.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Duke University Press,
2013.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 245 | 0 | 0 | |a Virtual War and Magical Death : |b Technologies and Imaginaries for Terror and Killing / |c Neil L. Whitehead and Sverker Finnström, eds. |
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| 490 | 0 | |a The cultures and practice of violence series | |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Virtual war and magical death: technologies and imaginaries for terror and killing / |r Neil L. Whitehead and Sverker Finnström -- |t Ethnography, knowledge, torture and silence / |r Neil L. Whitehead -- |t The role of culture in wars waged by robots: connecting drones, anthropology, and human terrain system's prehistory / |r David Price -- |t Cybernetic crystal ball: "forecasting" insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan / |r Roberto J. González -- |t Full spectrum: the military invasion of anthropology / |r R. Brian Ferguson -- |t Today he is no more: magic, intervention, and global war in Uganda / |r Sverker Finnström -- |t The hostile gaze: night vision and the immediation of nocturnal combat in vietnam and Iraq / |r Antonius C.G.M. Robben -- |t Virtual soldiers, cognitive laborers / |r Robertson Allen -- |t Virtual war in the tribal zone: airstrikes, drones and losing hearts and minds afghanistan and Pakistan / |r Jeffrey A. Sluka -- |t Propaganda, gangs and social cleansing in Guatemala / |r Victoria Sanford -- |t The soundtrack to war / |r Matthew Sumera -- |t War at large: miner magic and the carrion system / |r Koen Stroeken. |
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 546 | |a English. | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 650 | 7 | |a War |x Technological innovations. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01170408 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a War and society. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01170447 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a War and civilization. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01170426 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Technology |x Anthropological aspects. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01767877 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a SOCIAL SCIENCE |x Anthropology |x Cultural. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a POLITICAL SCIENCE |x Peace. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Guerre |x Innovations. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Guerre et civilisation. | |
| 650 | 6 | |a Guerre et societe. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Technology |x Anthropological aspects. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a War |x Technological innovations. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a War and civilization. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a War and society. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Electronic books. |2 local | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Finnström, Sverker, |e editor. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Whitehead, Neil L., |e editor. | |
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