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Iraq at a Distance describes the plight of the Iraqi people, caught since 2003 in the carnage between U.S. troops and Iraqi insurgents. This provocative book is a bold attempt by five distinguished anthropologists to study an inaccessible war zone through ground-breaking comparisons with armed confl...
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University of Pennsylvania Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Philadelphia, Pa. : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2010] ©2010 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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The ethnography of political violence
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http://dx.doi.org/10.9783/9780812203547 http://www.degruyter.com/doc/cover/9780812203547.jpg |
| Summary: |
Iraq at a Distance describes the plight of the Iraqi people, caught since 2003 in the carnage between U.S. troops and Iraqi insurgents. This provocative book is a bold attempt by five distinguished anthropologists to study an inaccessible war zone through ground-breaking comparisons with armed conflicts around the world. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (200 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | 3 illus. |
| ISBN: | 9780812203547 |
| Index Number: | GN497 |
| CLC: | D068 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Ethnographic Imagination at a Distance: An Introduction to the Anthropological Study of the Iraq War / Chapter 1. Night Fell on a Different World : Dangerous Visions and the War on Terror, a Lesson from Cambodia / Chapter 2. The War on Terror and Women s Rights in Iraq / Chapter 3. The War on Terror, Dismantling, and the Construction of Place: An Ethnographic Perspective from Palestine / Chapter 4. Losing Hearts and Minds in the War on Terrorism / Chapter 5. Mimesis in a War Among the People: What Argentina s Dirty War Reveals About Counterinsurgency in Iraq / Epilogue / Contributors -- Index. |