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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.

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Preface
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

Iraq at a Distance

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      Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
      Published 24 August 2011
      ISBN-13 9780812221831
      978-0812221831
      ISBN-10 0812221834
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      Warfare and defence

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Table of Contents

      Preface
      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

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