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.
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.
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
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
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