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Iraq at a Distance
Antonius C. G. M. . Ed(S): Robben
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paperback. Iraq at a Distance describes the plight of the Iraqi people, caught since 2003 in the carnage between U.S. troops and Iraqi insurgents. This provocative book is a bold attempt by five distinguished anthropologists to study an inaccessible war zone through ground-breaking comparisons with armed conflicts around the world. Editor(s): Robben, Antonius C. G. M. Series: The Ethnography of Political Violence Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, 3 illus. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; HBWS5; JHM. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 318.
The Iraq War has cost innumerable lives, caused vast material destruction, and inflicted suffering on millions of people. Iraq at a Distance: What Anthropology Can Teach Us About the War focuses on the plight of the Iraqi people, caught since 2003 in the carnage between U.S. and British troops on one side and, on the other, Iraqi insurgents, militias, and foreign al Qaeda operatives.
The volume is a bold attempt by six distinguished anthropologists to study a war zone too dangerous for fieldwork. They break new ground by using their ethnographic imagination as a research tool to analyze the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
Series
The Ethnography of Political Violence Series
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812221831
SKU
V9780812221831
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About Antonius C. G. M. . Ed(S): Robben
Antonius C. G. M. Robben is Professor of Anthropology at Utrecht University. His books include Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press, as well as the edited volumes Fieldwork Under Fire: Contemporary Studies of Violence and Survival (with Carolyn Nordstrom) and Cultures Under Siege: Collective Violence and Trauma (with Marcelo Suarez-Orozco).
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