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Title Iraq at a distance [electronic resource] : what anthropologists can teach us about the war / edited by Antonius C.G.M. Robben.

Imprint Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2010.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description ix, 186 p. : ill.
Series The ethnography of political violence
Ethnography of political violence.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Ethnographic imagination at a distance: an introduction to the anthropological study of the Iraq War / Antonius C.G.M. Robben -- "Night fell on a different world": dangerous visions and the War on Terror, a lesson from Cambodia / Alexander Laban Hinton -- The War on Terror and women's rights in Iraq / Nadje Al-Ali -- The War on Terror, dismantling, and the construction of place: an ethnographic perspective from Palestine / Julie Peteet -- Losing hearts and minds in the "War on Terrorism" / Jeffrey A. Sluka -- Mimesis in a war among the people: what Argentina's dirty war reveals about counterinsurgency in Iraq / Antonius C.G.M. Robben.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject War and society -- Case studies.
Political anthropology -- Fieldwork -- Case studies.
War on Terrorism, 2001-2009.
Iraq War, 2003-2011.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Robben, Antonius C. G. M.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780812242034 (alk. paper)
0812242033 (alk. paper)
9780812221831
9780812203547 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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