Anthropology At War
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Author | : Andrew D. Evans |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 309 |
Release | : 2010-09-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0226222683 |
Between 1914 and 1918, German anthropologists conducted their work in the midst of full-scale war but its development was profoundly altered by the conflict. Combining intellectual and cultural history with the history of science, this book examines both the origins and consequences of this shift.
Author | : Montgomery McFate |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 503 |
Release | : 2018-05-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0190934948 |
In almost every military intervention in its history, the US has made cultural mistakes that hindered attainment of its policy goals. From the strategic bombing of Vietnam to the accidental burning of the Koran in Afghanistan, it has blundered around with little consideration of local cultural beliefs and for the long-term effects on the host nation's society. Cultural anthropology--the so-called "handmaiden of colonialism"--has historically served as an intellectual bridge between Western powers and local nationals. What light can it shed on the intersection of the US military and foreign societies today? This book tells the story of anthropologists who worked directly for the military, such as Ursula Graham Bower, the only woman to hold a British combat command during WWII. Each faced challenges including the negative outcomes of exporting Western political models and errors of perception. Ranging from the British colonial era in Africa to the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Military Anthropology illustrates the conceptual, cultural and practical barriers encountered by military organisations operating in societies vastly different from their own.
Author | : Alisse Waterston |
Publisher | : Berghahn Books |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 184545622X |
The contributers reflect on their ethnographic work at the frontlines and recount not only what they have seen and heard in war zones but also what is being read, studied, analyzed and remembered in such diverse locations as Colombia and Guatemala, Israel and Palestine, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Haiti. They reflect on the important issue of "accountability" and offer explanations to discern causes, patterns, and practices of war.
Author | : Dustin M. Wax |
Publisher | : Pluto Press (UK) |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2008-01-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Examines the influence of McCarthyism and the CIA on anthropology in the cold war era.
Author | : David H. Price |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2008-06-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780822342373 |
DIVCultural history of anthropologists' involvement with U.S. intelligence agencies--as spies and informants--during World War II./div
Author | : David H. Price |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2016-03-10 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0822374382 |
In Cold War Anthropology, David H. Price offers a provocative account of the profound influence that the American security state has had on the field of anthropology since the Second World War. Using a wealth of information unearthed in CIA, FBI, and military records, he maps out the intricate connections between academia and the intelligence community and the strategic use of anthropological research to further the goals of the American military complex. The rise of area studies programs, funded both openly and covertly by government agencies, encouraged anthropologists to produce work that had intellectual value within the field while also shaping global counterinsurgency and development programs that furthered America’s Cold War objectives. Ultimately, the moral issues raised by these activities prompted the American Anthropological Association to establish its first ethics code. Price concludes by comparing Cold War-era anthropology to the anthropological expertise deployed by the military in the post-9/11 era.
Author | : Franz Boas |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 26 |
Release | : 1912 |
Genre | : War |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Reinhard Johler |
Publisher | : transcript Verlag |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2014-03-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3839414229 |
World War I marks a well-known turning point in anthropology, and this volume is the first to examine the variety of forms it took in Europe. Distinct national traditions emerged and institutes were founded, partly due to collaborations with the military. Researchers in the cultural sciences used war zones to gain access to »informants«: prisoner-of-war and refugee camps, occupied territories, even the front lines. Anthropologists tailored their inquiries to aid the war effort, contributed to interpretations of the war as a »struggle« between »races«, and assessed the »warlike« nature of the Balkan region, whose crises were key to the outbreak of the Great War.
Author | : Jonathan Haas |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 1990-07-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521380423 |
The book brings together a group of authors who are addressing the nature and causes of warfare in simpler, tribal societies. The authors represent a range of different opinions about why humans engage in warfare, why wars start, and the role of war in human evolution. Warfare in cultures from several different world areas is considered, ranging over the Amazon, the Caribbean, the Andes, the Southwestern United States, Southeast Asia, Polynesia, and Malaysia. To explain the origins and maintenance of war in tribal societies, different authors appeal to a broad spectrum of demographic, environmental, historical and biological variables. Competing explanatory models of warfare are presented head to head, with overlapping bodies of data offered in support of each.
Author | : Keith F. Otterbein |
Publisher | : Waveland Press |
Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 2009-03-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1478609885 |
Keith Otterbein, a long-time authority on anthropological studies of warfare, provides a rich synthesis of theory, literature, and findings developed by anthropologists and scholars from other disciplines. This in-depthyet conciselook at warfare opens with two well-known ethnographic examples of warring peoples: the Dani and the Yanomam. The origins and evolution of war, types of warfare, weapons and tactics, military organizations, and the social bases of war structure discussions within the text. Analyses of historical events and case studies inform readers of different perspectives about why people go to war, how societies can be identified as having war, the elements necessary for war, and how war might be avoided. Otterbein concludes the text by presenting the concept of Positive Peacepromoting peace as a goal of human existenceas a way for humans to eliminate the fatal consequences of war.