Anthropology and the United States Military: Coming of Age in the Twenty-First Century

by P. Frese (Editor), M. Harrell (Editor)

Overview

An edited collection of ethnographic research that seeks to provide visions of and for US military culture from a solid anthropological base. The volume explores several important but relatively unknown cultural variations in the defense community through a variety of lenses. A strong list of contributors highlight important issues such as: anthrax vaccines, the 'Golden Age' culture of the military, gender roles among army spouses, weight control and physical readiness, the military advisor, and the United States Naval Academy.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403963000
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	10/03/2003
Edition description:	2003
Pages:	162
Product dimensions:	5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.02(d)

About the Author

CLEMENTINE FUJIMURA Associate Professor in the Department of Language Studies at the U.S. Naval Academy, Maryland, USA JEANNE GUILLEMIN Professor at Boston College, USA, Senior Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Security Studies Program, USA JOSHUA LINFORD-STEINFELD Doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, USA in the program in Medical Anthropology, a joint program with the University of California at San Francisco ROBERT A. RUBINSTEIN Professor of Anthropology and of International Relations in the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, New York, USA ANNA SIMONS Associate professor of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, Canada

Table of Contents

Foreword; J.P.Hawkins Introduction; M.C.Harrell Peacekeeper and Politics: Experience and Political Representation Among United States Military Officers; R.A.Rubenstein Anthrax Vaccines: Medical Risks and the Volunteer Army; J.Guillemin Guardians of the Golden Age: Custodians of U.S. Military Culture; P.R.Frese Gender Roles and Class Among Current Army Spouses; M.C.Harrell Weight Control and Physical Readiness Among Navy Personnel; J.Linford-Steinfeld The Military Advisor as Warrior-King, and Other 'Going Native' Temptations A.Simons Integrating Diversity and Understanding the Other: Cultural Studies at the U.S. Naval Academy; C.Fujimura Conclusion: Anthropology and the U.S. Military; P.R.Frese

Editorial Reviews

"This book puts the emerging field of military anthropology on the social science research map. The rich variety of the chapters offer unique ethnographic insights into US Military culture." - Donna Winslow, Vrije University, Amsterdam

"An extraordinarily timely collection of fine articles on the military when the subject matter is in the forefront of most of the people not only in the United States but in the world at large. As anthropology is coming home to their own culture and society and the anthropology of the military is becoming its burgeoning sub-field, the volume demonstrates how anthropological methods and theories, including those by M. Maus, M. Douglas, D. Schneider, P. Bourdieu, and C. Geertz, can be successfully applied to illuminate the issues of the body, kinship, class, individual thoughts and feelings in their day-to-day lives. Written in a lucid prose, the volume should be read by all, in anthropology and beyond." - Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, William F. Vilas Research Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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