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The counter-counterinsurgency manual : or, notes on demilitarizin g American society / Network of Concerned Anthropologists Steering C ommittee ; Catherine Besteman ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago, IL : Prickly Paradigm Press, 2009.Description: vii, 190 p. ; 18 cmISBN:
  • 0979405750 (pbk.)
Other title:
  • Notes on demilitarizing American society
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 355.6  22
Contents:
Preface / Marshall Sahlins -- Introduction : war, culture, and counterinsurgency / Roberto Gonzâalez, Hugh Gusterson, David Price -- The military normal / Catherine Lutz -- Militarizing knowle dge / Hugh Gusterson -- Faking scholarship / David Price -- Radical or reactionary? / Greg Feldman -- Embedded / Rober to Gonzâalez -- Counter AFRICOM / Catherine Besteman -- Anthro pology and HUMINT / Andrew Bickford -- About face! / Kanhong L in -- Proposals for a humanpolitik / David Vine.
Summary: Critiques the Pentagon's Counterinsurgency Field Manual, which offer ed a blueprint for mobilizing the cultural expertise of anthropologists for the war in Iraq. Explores the ethical and intellectual conflicts o f the Pentagon's Human Terrain System, and probes the increasing milita rization of academic knowledge.
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Preface / Marshall Sahlins -- Introduction : war, culture, and counterinsurgency / Roberto Gonzâalez, Hugh Gusterson, David Price -- The military normal / Catherine Lutz -- Militarizing knowle dge / Hugh Gusterson -- Faking scholarship / David Price -- Radical or reactionary? / Greg Feldman -- Embedded / Rober to Gonzâalez -- Counter AFRICOM / Catherine Besteman -- Anthro pology and HUMINT / Andrew Bickford -- About face! / Kanhong L in -- Proposals for a humanpolitik / David Vine.

Critiques the Pentagon's Counterinsurgency Field Manual, which offer ed a blueprint for mobilizing the cultural expertise of anthropologists for the war in Iraq. Explores the ethical and intellectual conflicts o f the Pentagon's Human Terrain System, and probes the increasing milita rization of academic knowledge.

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