Virtual war and magical death : technologies and imaginaries for terror and killing by Whitehead, Neil L; Finnström, Sverker instant download

Virtual war and magical death : technologies and imaginaries for terror and killing by Whitehead, Neil L; Finnström, Sverker instant download

x, 289 p. : 24 cm, 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, Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-277) and index