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Book Release
Toronto, Ontario | September 25, 2012
Practicing Military Anthropology Beyond Expectations and Traditional Boundaries Edited By Robert A. Rubinstein, Kerry Fosher, Clementine Fujimura
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In this book, a number of anthropologists who have either worked with the US armed forces or who teach at military service academies reflect on what they do and teach in their military anthropologist personae. Through their personal accounts they show that the practice of military anthropology is much more than HTS and that they are more than mere “technicians of the state” as critics allege. Revealed here are thoughtful and moving essays that deal with issues of ethics, morality and professional decorum. Whether one agrees with these accounts or not, they do show that the linkage of anthropology with the military is complex and multi-faceted and that frank and open exchanges of ideas for dealing with the relationship of military anthropology to the wider discipline.
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Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
Exploring Military Anthropology—Robert A. Rubinstein, Kerry B. Fosher, and Clementine Fujimura
1) Archaeological Ethics and Working for the Military—Laurie Rush
2) “Living the Dream”: One Military Anthropologist’s Initiation—Clementine Fujimura
3) A Day in the Life of the Marine Corps Professor of Operational Culture—Paula Holmes-Eber
4) The Road Turnley Took—Jessica Turnley
5) Pebbles in the Headwaters: Working within Military Intelligence—Kerry Fosher
6) Ethnicity and Shifting Identity: The Importance of Cultural Specialists in U.S. Military Operations—Christopher Varhola
7) Retrospective Attribution, Ritual Pollution, and Master Narratives in Anthropology’s Engagements With “The Military”—Robert A. Rubinstein
About the Editors and Contributors
References
Index
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