Virtual War and Magical Death: Technologies and Imaginaries for Terror and Killing (The Cultures and Practice of Violence)

Virtual War and Magical Death: Technologies and Imaginaries for Terror and Killing (The Cultures and Practice of Violence)

by WHITEHEAD (Editor), Whitehead (Editor)

Synopsis

The contributors to this provocative collection scrutinize the relations between anthropology and contemporary global war, contending that modern high-tech warfare is analogous to rituals of magic and sorcery, and examining the U.S. military's exploitation of ethnographic research.

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 300
Edition: Illustrated
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 19 Apr 2013

ISBN 10: 0822354470
ISBN 13: 9780822354475