Virtual war and magical death: technologies and imaginaries for terror and killing

Virtual war and magical death: technologies and imaginaries for terror and killing / Neil L. Whitehead and Sverker Finnström -- Ethnography, knowledge, torture and silence / Neil L. Whitehead -- The role of culture in wars waged by robots: connecting drones, anthropology, and human terrain system�...

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Weitere Verfasser: Whitehead, Neil L. (MitwirkendeR), Finnström, Sverker (MitwirkendeR)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Durham Duke University Press 2013
Schriftenreihe:The cultures and practice of violence series
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Zusammenfassung:Virtual war and magical death: technologies and imaginaries for terror and killing / Neil L. Whitehead and Sverker Finnström -- Ethnography, knowledge, torture and silence / Neil L. Whitehead -- The role of culture in wars waged by robots: connecting drones, anthropology, and human terrain system's prehistory / David Price -- Cybernetic crystal ball: "forecasting" insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan / Roberto J. González -- Full spectrum: the military invasion of anthropology / R. Brian Ferguson -- Today he is no more: magic, intervention, and global war in Uganda / Sverker Finnström -- The hostile gaze: night vision and the immediation of nocturnal combat in vietnam and Iraq / Antonius C.G.M. Robben -- Virtual soldiers, cognitive laborers / Robertson Allen -- Virtual war in the tribal zone: airstrikes, drones and losing hearts and minds afghanistan and Pakistan / Jeffrey A. Sluka -- Propaganda, gangs and social cleansing in Guatemala / Victoria Sanford -- The soundtrack to war / Matthew Sumera -- War at large: miner magic and the carrion system / Koen Stroeken
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and (pages [251]-277) and index. - Description based on print version record
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (x, 289 pages) illustrations
ISBN:082237904X
9780822379041

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