War, Technology, Anthropology

A Forum for Social Analysis

By: Koen Stroeken (Editor)

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Paperback | 1 December 2011

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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.

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Non-Fiction Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Interdisciplinary Studies Peace Studies & Conflict Resolution Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography Politics & Government Political Control & Freedoms

Introduction: War Technology Anthropology
Perpetuating War
Drones in the Tribal Zone: Virtual War and Losing Hearts and Minds in the Af-Pak War
The Dead of Night: Chaos and Spectacide of Nocturnal Combat in the Iraq War
World in a Bottle: Prognosticating Insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan
Anthropology As We Know It - A Casualty of War?
Globalizing War
Games Without Tears, Wars Without Frontiers
Music, Aesthetics, and the Technologies of Online War
Humanitarian Death and the Magic of Global War in Uganda
Resident Violence: Miner mwanga magic as a war technology anthropology
The Magic of Martyrdom and Cultural Imaginaries in Palestine
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