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Virtual War and Magical Death

Neil L. Whitehead,Sverker Finnström
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Author : Neil L. Whitehead,Sverker Finnström
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822354475

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Virtual War and Magical Death is a provocative examination of the relations between anthropology and contemporary global war. Several arguments unite the collected essays, which are based on ethnographic research in varied locations, including Guatemala, Uganda, and Tanzania, as well as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and the United States. Foremost is the contention that modern high-tech warfare—as it is practiced and represented by the military, the media, and civilians—is analogous to rituals of magic and sorcery. Technologies of "virtual warfare," such as high-altitude bombing, remote drone attacks, night-vision goggles, and even music videoes and computer games that simulate battle, reproduce the imaginative worlds and subjective experiences of witchcraft, magic, and assault sorcery long studied by cultural anthropologists. Another significant focus of the collection is the U.S. military's exploitation of ethnographic research, particularly through its controversial Human Terrain Systems (HTS) Program, which embeds anthropologists as cultural experts in military units. Several pieces address the ethical dilemmas that HTS and other counterinsurgency projects pose for anthropologists. Other essays reveal the relatively small scale of those programs in relation to the military's broader use of, and ambitions for, social scientific data. Contributors. Robertson Allen, Brian Ferguson, Sverker Finnström, Roberto J. González, David H. Price, Antonius Robben, Victoria Sanford, Jeffrey Sluka, Koen Stroeken, Matthew Sumera, Neil L. Whitehead

Virtual War and Magical Death

Neil L. Whitehead,Sverker Finnström
Virtual War and Magical Death Book PDF

Author : Neil L. Whitehead,Sverker Finnström
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822379041

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Virtual War and Magical Death by Neil L. Whitehead,Sverker Finnström Pdf

Virtual War and Magical Death is a provocative examination of the relations between anthropology and contemporary global war. Several arguments unite the collected essays, which are based on ethnographic research in varied locations, including Guatemala, Uganda, and Tanzania, as well as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, and the United States. Foremost is the contention that modern high-tech warfare—as it is practiced and represented by the military, the media, and civilians—is analogous to rituals of magic and sorcery. Technologies of "virtual warfare," such as high-altitude bombing, remote drone attacks, night-vision goggles, and even music videoes and computer games that simulate battle, reproduce the imaginative worlds and subjective experiences of witchcraft, magic, and assault sorcery long studied by cultural anthropologists. Another significant focus of the collection is the U.S. military's exploitation of ethnographic research, particularly through its controversial Human Terrain Systems (HTS) Program, which embeds anthropologists as cultural experts in military units. Several pieces address the ethical dilemmas that HTS and other counterinsurgency projects pose for anthropologists. Other essays reveal the relatively small scale of those programs in relation to the military's broader use of, and ambitions for, social scientific data. Contributors. Robertson Allen, Brian Ferguson, Sverker Finnström, Roberto J. González, David H. Price, Antonius Robben, Victoria Sanford, Jeffrey Sluka, Koen Stroeken, Matthew Sumera, Neil L. Whitehead

Virtual War

Gloria Skurzynski
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Author : Gloria Skurzynski
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1439116083

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Imagine a life of virtual reality -- a childhood contained in a controlled environment, with no human contact or experiences outside of the world of computer-generated images. Corgan has been genetically engineered by the Federation for quick reflexes, high intelligence, and physical superiority. Everything Corgan is, everything he has ever seen or done, was to prepare him for one moment: a bloodless, computer-controlled virtual war. When Corgan meets his two fellow warriors, he begins to question the Federation. Now Corgan must decide where his loyalties lie, what he's willing to fight for, and exactly what he wants in return. His decisions will affect not only these three virtual warriors, but all the people left on earth.

Bioarchaeology of Women and Children in Times of War

Debra L. Martin,Caryn Tegtmeyer
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Author : Debra L. Martin,Caryn Tegtmeyer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2017-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319483962

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Bioarchaeology of Women and Children in Times of War by Debra L. Martin,Caryn Tegtmeyer Pdf

This volume will examine the varied roles that women and children play in period of warfare, which in most cases deviate from their perceived role as noncombatants. Using social theory about the nature of sex, gender and age in thinking about vulnerabilities to different groups during warfare, this collection of studies focuses on the broader impacts of war both during warfare but also long after the conflict is over. The volume will show that during periods of violence and warfare, many suffer beyond those individuals directly involved in battle. From pre-Hispanic Peru to Ming dynasty Mongolia to the Civil War-era United States to the present, warfare has been and is a public health disaster, particularly for women and children. Individuals and populations suffer from displacement, sometimes permanently, due to loss of food and resources and an increased risk of contracting communicable diseases, which results from the poor conditions and tight spaces present in most refugee camps, ancient and modern. Bioarchaeology can provide a more nuanced lens through which to examine the effects of warfare on life, morbidity, and mortality, bringing individuals not traditionally considered by studies of warfare and prolonged violence into focus. Inclusion of these groups in discussions of warfare can increase our understanding of not only the biological but also the social meaning and costs of warfare.

War Magic

Douglas Farrer
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Author : Douglas Farrer
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785333309

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This compelling volume explores how war magic and warrior religion unleash the power of the gods, demons, ghosts, and the dead. Documenting war magic and warrior religion as they are performed in diverse cultures and across historical time periods, this volume foregrounds embodiment, practice, and performance in anthropological approaches to magic, sorcery, shamanism, and religion. The authors go beyond what magic ‘represents’ to consider what magic does. From Chinese exorcists, Javanese spirit siblings, and black magic in Sumatra to Tamil Tiger suicide bombers, Chamorro spiritual re-enchantment, tantric Buddhist war magic, and Yanomami dark shamans, religion and magic are re-evaluated not just from the practitioner’s perspective but through the victim’s lived experience. These original investigations reveal a nuanced approach to understanding social action, innovation, and the revitalization of tradition in colonial and post-colonial societies undergoing rapid social transformation.

The Anthropologist as Writer

Helena Wulff
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Author : Helena Wulff
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785330193

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The Anthropologist as Writer by Helena Wulff Pdf

Writing is crucial to anthropology, but which genres are anthropologists expected to master in the 21st century? This book explores how anthropological writing shapes the intellectual content of the discipline and academic careers. First, chapters identify the different writing genres and contexts anthropologists actually engage with. Second, this book argues for the usefulness and necessity of taking seriously the idea of writing as a craft and of writing across and within genres in new ways. Although academic writing is an anthropologist’s primary genre, they also write in many others, from drafting administrative texts and filing reports to composing ethnographically inspired journalism and fiction.

Virtual Death

Shale Aaron
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Author : Shale Aaron
Publisher : Harpercollins
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0061054305

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Lydia is a death artist who has flatlined for fame and fortune in vast arenas and underground clubs. She has died more times than anyone alive, and then got out of the game. But Lydia is a legend, and legends' lives are not their own. So Lydia has agreed to end it all one more time in the big comeback that could be her last.

Routledge Handbook of Civil Wars

Edward Newman,Karl DeRouen, Jr.
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Author : Edward Newman,Karl DeRouen, Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136255786

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Routledge Handbook of Civil Wars by Edward Newman,Karl DeRouen, Jr. Pdf

This comprehensive new Handbook explores the significance and nature of armed intrastate conflict and civil war in the modern world. Civil wars and intrastate conflict represent the principal form of organised violence since the end of World War II, and certainly in the contemporary era. These conflicts have a huge impact and drive major political change within the societies in which they occur, as well as on an international scale. The global importance of recent intrastate and regional conflicts in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Somalia, Nepal, Cote d'Ivoire, Syria and Libya – amongst others – has served to refocus academic and policy interest upon civil war. Drawing together contributions from key thinkers in the field who discuss the sources, causes, duration, nature and recurrence of civil wars, as well as their political meaning and international impact, the Handbook is organised into five key parts: Part I: Understanding and Explaining Civil Wars: Theoretical and Methodological Debates Part II: The Causes of Civil Wars Part III: The Nature and Impact of Civil Wars Part IV: International Dimensions Part V: Termination and Resolution of Civil Wars Covering a wide range of topics including micro-level issues as well as broader debates, Routledge Handbook of Civil Wars will set a benchmark for future research in the field. This volume will be of much interest to students of civil wars and intrastate conflict, ethnic conflict, political violence, peace and conflict studies, security studies and IR in general.

Virtual War

G. Skurzynski
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Author : G. Skurzynski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1417720034

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In a future world where global contamination has necessitated limited human contact, three young people with unique genetically engineered abilities are teamed up to wage a war in virtual reality.

Virtual War: Alpha Centauri

Steven J. Shelley
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Author : Steven J. Shelley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1521036195

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Virtual War: Alpha Centauri by Steven J. Shelley Pdf

Humans have been at war with the Irians for twelve years.With heavy casualties and depleted resources on both sides, opposing military leaders come up with a novel solution.It is agreed that the newly-discovered Alpha Centauri system will be fought virtually, inside a dynamic role-playing game.Using cutting-edge Immersion technology, human and Irian engineers unite to design the game. The rules are simple: two armies of 100 pixel runners will compete for each of the three habitable planets in the Alpha Centauri system. The species with the most victories will be permitted to colonize the system for real, putting them in a strong position to win the war. For Major John Talbot, chosen leader of the human virtual army, the chance to play such an amazingly detailed game is a dream come true. The price of failure, however, doesn't bear thinking about ...VIRTUAL WAR: ALPHA CENTAURI is the first in an exciting series of science fiction LitRPG novels.

Our Lives

Jennifer A. Shannon
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Author : Jennifer A. Shannon
Publisher : School for Advanced Research Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : 1938645278

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In 2004 the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) opened to the general public. This book, in the broadest sense, is about how that museum became what it is today. For many Native individuals, the NMAI, a prominent and permanent symbol of Native presence in America, in the shadow of the Capitol and at the center of federal power, is a triumph. At the grand opening, the museum's main message was "We are still here." This message was most directly displayed in Our Lives: Contemporary Life and Identities, one of the NMAI's inaugural exhibitions and the main focus of this book. Ultimately, this is a record of the sincere efforts--and conflicts and achievements--experienced by those who planned, developed, and constructed the NMAI's inaugural exhibitions. It is a narrowly focused account of a particular kind of curatorial practice called "community curating." It is also an account of many different people struggling to do their best under the weight of a monumental task: to represent all Native peoples of the Americas in the first institution of its kind, a national museum dedicated to the first peoples of the hemisphere.

Virtual Death

Shale Aaron
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Author : Shale Aaron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0756794625

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It's the day after tomorrow in an America where Chevrolet Reagans (no one at the wheel) cruise the streets of free/dog cities (they keep the homeless down), where cannibalism is legal (in Colorado), & where Lydia Melmoth is a celebrity. A special kind of celebrity. Lydia is a death artist who has flatlined for fame & fortune in vast arenas & underground clubs. She died more times than anyone alive, then got out of the game before the gray rot turned her brain to bric-a-brac. But Lydia is a legend, & legends' lives (& deaths) are not their own. Her fans still worship her, her mother needs the money from the TV rights -- so Lydia has agreed to end it all one more time in the big comeback that could be her last.

Guns of the Dawn

Adrian Tchaikovsky
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Author : Adrian Tchaikovsky
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780230770058

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Guns of the Dawn by Adrian Tchaikovsky Pdf

Guns of the Dawn is a pacey, gripping fantasy of war and magic, from Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author, Adrian Tchaikovsky. ‘One of the best books I've ever read’ – Peter Newman, author of The Vagrant The first casualty of war is truth . . . First, Denland’s revolutionaries assassinated their king, launching a wave of bloodshed after generations of peace. Next they clashed with Lascanne, their royalist neighbour, pitching war-machines against warlocks in a fiercely fought conflict. Genteel Emily Marshwic watched as the hostilities stole her family’s young men. But then came the call for yet more Lascanne soldiers in a ravaged kingdom with none left to give. Emily must join the ranks of conscripted women and march toward the front lines. With barely enough training to hold a musket, Emily braves the savage reality of warfare. But she begins to doubt her country's cause, and those doubts become critical. For her choices will determine her own future and that of two nations locked in battle. ‘An engrossing story, beautifully told’ – SFX ‘Moving, gripping and wonderfully paced’ – The Bookbag

America's Digital Army

Robertson Allen
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Author : Robertson Allen
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781496200617

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"America's Digital Army is an ethnographic study of the link between interactive entertainment and military power, drawing on Robertson Allen's fieldwork observing video game developers, military strategists, U.S. Army marketing agencies, and an array of defense contracting companies that worked to produce the official U.S. Army video game, America's Army. Allen uncovers the methods by which gaming technologies such as America's Army, with military funding and themes, engage in a militarization of American society that constructs everyone, even nonplayers of games, as virtual soldiers available for deployment. America's Digital Army examines the army's desire for "talented" soldiers capable of high-tech work; beliefs about America's enemies as reflected in the game's virtual combatants; tensions over best practices in military recruiting; and the sometimes overlapping cultures of gamers, game developers, and soldiers. Allen reveals how binary categorizations such as soldier versus civilian, war versus game, work versus play, and virtual versus real become blurred--if not broken down entirely--through games and interactive media that reflect the U.S. military's ludic imagination of future wars, enemies, and soldiers."--

Dark Shamans

Neil L. Whitehead
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Author : Neil L. Whitehead
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0822384302

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Dark Shamans by Neil L. Whitehead Pdf

On the little-known and darker side of shamanism there exists an ancient form of sorcery called kanaimà, a practice still observed among the Amerindians of the highlands of Guyana, Venezuela, and Brazil that involves the ritual stalking, mutilation, lingering death, and consumption of human victims. At once a memoir of cultural encounter and an ethnographic and historical investigation, this book offers a sustained, intimate look at kanaimà, its practitioners, their victims, and the reasons they give for their actions. Neil L. Whitehead tells of his own involvement with kanaimà—including an attempt to kill him with poison—and relates the personal testimonies of kanaimà shamans, their potential victims, and the victims’ families. He then goes on to discuss the historical emergence of kanaimà, describing how, in the face of successive modern colonizing forces—missionaries, rubber gatherers, miners, and development agencies—the practice has become an assertion of native autonomy. His analysis explores the ways in which kanaimà mediates both national and international impacts on native peoples in the region and considers the significance of kanaimà for current accounts of shamanism and religious belief and for theories of war and violence. Kanaimà appears here as part of the wider lexicon of rebellious terror and exotic horror—alongside the cannibal, vampire, and zombie—that haunts the western imagination. Dark Shamans broadens discussions of violence and of the representation of primitive savagery by recasting both in the light of current debates on modernity and globalization.