Virtual war and magical death : technologies and imaginaries for terror and killing /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Whitehead, Neil L. (Editor), Finnström, Sverker (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2013.
Series:Cultures and practice of violence series.
Subjects:
War and society.
War and civilization.
War > Technological innovations.
Technology > Anthropological aspects.
Guerre et société.
Guerre et civilisation.
Guerre > Innovations.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Peace.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Technology > Anthropological aspects
War and civilization
War and society
War > Technological innovations
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Virtual war and magical death: technologies and imaginaries for terror and killing / Neil L. Whitehead and Sverker Finnström
  • Ethnography, knowledge, torture and silence / Neil L. Whitehead
  • The role of culture in wars waged by robots: connecting drones, anthropology, and human terrain system's prehistory / David Price
  • Cybernetic crystal ball: "forecasting" insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan / Roberto J. González
  • Full spectrum: the military invasion of anthropology / R. Brian Ferguson
  • Today he is no more: magic, intervention, and global war in Uganda / Sverker Finnström
  • The hostile gaze: night vision and the immediation of nocturnal combat in vietnam and Iraq / Antonius C.G.M. Robben
  • Virtual soldiers, cognitive laborers / Robertson Allen
  • Virtual war in the tribal zone: airstrikes, drones and losing hearts and minds afghanistan and Pakistan / Jeffrey A. Sluka
  • Propaganda, gangs and social cleansing in Guatemala / Victoria Sanford
  • The soundtrack to war / Matthew Sumera
  • War at large: miner magic and the carrion system / Koen Stroeken.

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