Iraq at a Distance

What Anthropologists Can Teach Us about the War
Herausgeber: Robben, Antonius C G M

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9780812221831
• ISBN-10: 0812221834
• Artikelnr.: 33875303

Autorenporträt

Edited by Antonius C. G. M. Robben

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Ethnographic Imagination at a Distance: An Introduction to the
Anthropological Study of the Iraq War
—Antonius C. G. M. Robben
Chapter 1. "Night Fell on a Different World": Dangerous Visions and the War
on Terror, a Lesson from Cambodia
—Alexander Laban Hinton
Chapter 2. The War on Terror and Women's Rights in Iraq
—Nadje Al-Ali
Chapter 3. The War on Terror, Dismantling, and the Construction of Place:
An Ethnographic Perspective from Palestine
—Julie Peteet
Chapter 4. Losing Hearts and Minds in the "War on Terrorism"
—Jeffrey A. Sluka
Chapter 5. Mimesis in a War Among the People: What Argentina's Dirty War
Reveals About Counterinsurgency in Iraq
—Antonius C. G. M. Robben
Epilogue
—Ibrahim Al-Marashi
List of Contributors
Index