Iraq at a distance
Subtitle: what anthropologists can teach us about the war
By: edited by Antonius C.G.M. Robben.
Contributors: Robben, Antonius C. G. M.
Series: The ethnography of political violence; Ethnography of political violence
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780812242034
Subjects: War and society -- Case studies; Political anthropology -- Fieldwork -- Case studies; War on Terrorism, 2001-2009; Iraq War, 2003-
Genres: Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ethnographic imagination at a distance: an introduction to the anthropological study of the Iraq War / Antonius C.G.M. Robben; title: "Night fell on a different world": dangerous visions and the War on Terror, a lesson from Cambodia / Alexander Laban Hinton; title: The War on Terror and women's rights in Iraq / Nadje Al-Ali; title: The War on Terror, dismantling, and the construction of place: an ethnographic perspective from Palestine / Julie Peteet; title: Losing hearts and minds in the "War on Terrorism" / Jeffrey A. Sluka; title: Mimesis in a war among the people: what Argentina's dirty war reveals about counterinsurgency in Iraq / Antonius C.G.M. Robben.