Considering Anthropology and Small Wars

ISBN-13: 9780367538200 / Miękka / 2023 / 242 str.

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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).