Description
Book SynopsisIraq 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.
Table of ContentsPreface
Ethnographic Imagination at a Distance: An Introduction to the Anthropological Study of the Iraq War
—Antonius C. G. M. Robben
Chapter 1. "Night Fell on a Different World": Dangerous Visions and the War on Terror, a Lesson from Cambodia
—Alexander Laban Hinton
Chapter 2. The War on Terror and Women's Rights in Iraq
—Nadje Al-Ali
Chapter 3. The War on Terror, Dismantling, and the Construction of Place: An Ethnographic Perspective from Palestine
—Julie Peteet
Chapter 4. Losing Hearts and Minds in the "War on Terrorism"
—Jeffrey A. Sluka
Chapter 5. Mimesis in a War Among the People: What Argentina's Dirty War Reveals About Counterinsurgency in Iraq
—Antonius C. G. M. Robben
Epilogue
—Ibrahim Al-Marashi
List of Contributors
Index
