Considering Anthropology and Small Wars (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Mcfate, Montgomery

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book considers the anthropology of small wars and insurgencies through an analysis of the Islamic State's military adaptation in Iraq, Al Shabaab recruiting in Somalia, religion in Israeli combat units, as well as many other topics.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000225280
• Artikelnr.: 60690189

Autorenporträt

Dr. Montgomery McFate is professor at the US Naval War College. Dr. McFate received a BA from UC Berkeley, a PhD in Anthropology from Yale, and a JD from Harvard Law School. She is the author of Military Anthropology (Oxford University Press, 2018) and editor of Social Science Goes to War (Oxford University Press, 2015).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Considering anthropology and small wars
Montgomery McFate
1. Combat anthropologist: Charles T. R. Bohannan, counter-insurgency
pioneer, 1936-1966
Jason S. Ridler
2. Archaeology and small wars
Christopher Jasparro
3. Identity wars: collective identity building in insurgency and
counterinsurgency
Heather S. Gregg
4. Lost in translation: anthropologists and Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan
Paula Holmes-Eber
5. Beyond faith and foxholes: vernacular religion and asymmetrical warfare
within contemporary IDF combat units
Nehemia Stern and Uzi Ben Shalom
6. Doing one's job: translating politics into military practice in the
Norwegian mentoring mission to Iraq
Kjetil Enstad
7. 'The perfect counterinsurgent': reconsidering the case of Major Jim Gant
David B. Edwards
8. Francis FitzGerald's Fire in the Lake, state legitimacy and
anthropological insights on a revolutionary war
Paul B. Rich
9. Accidental ethnographers: the Islamic State's tribal engagement
experiment
Craig Whiteside and Anas Elallame
10. The anthropology of Al-Shabaab: the salient factors for the insurgency
movement's recruitment project
Mohamed Haji Ingiriis