Warfare in Cultural Context - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Warfare in Cultural Context write by Axel E. Nielsen. This book was released on 2014-02-05. Warfare in Cultural Context available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Warfare is a constant in human history. Contributors to this book contend that agency and culture, inherited values and dispositions (such as religion and other cultural practices), beliefs, and institutions are always woven into the conduct of war. Using archaeological and ethnohistorical data from various parts of the world, the contributors explore the multiple avenues for the cultural study of warfare that these ideas make possible. Contributions focus on cultural aspects of warfare in Mesoamerica, South America, North America, and Southeast Asia.
Trauma, War, and Violence
Trauma, War, and Violence - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Trauma, War, and Violence write by Joop de Jong. This book was released on 2006-04-11. Trauma, War, and Violence available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume describes a variety of public mental health and psychosocial programs in conflict and post-conflict situations in Africa and Asia. Each chapter details the psychosocial and mental health aspects of specific conflicts and examines them within their sociopolitical and historical contexts. This volume will be of great interest to psychologists, social workers, anthropologists, historians, human rights experts, and psychiatrists working or interested in the field of psychotrauma.
Warfare, Culture, and Environment
Warfare, Culture, and Environment - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Warfare, Culture, and Environment write by R. Brian Ferguson. This book was released on 1984. Warfare, Culture, and Environment available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Military Anthropology
Military Anthropology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Military Anthropology write by Montgomery McFate. This book was released on 2018-05-01. Military Anthropology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In almost every military intervention in its history, the US has made cultural mistakes that hindered attainment of its policy goals. From the strategic bombing of Vietnam to the accidental burning of the Koran in Afghanistan, it has blundered around with little consideration of local cultural beliefs and for the long-term effects on the host nation's society. Cultural anthropology--the so-called "handmaiden of colonialism"--has historically served as an intellectual bridge between Western powers and local nationals. What light can it shed on the intersection of the US military and foreign societies today? This book tells the story of anthropologists who worked directly for the military, such as Ursula Graham Bower, the only woman to hold a British combat command during WWII. Each faced challenges including the negative outcomes of exporting Western political models and errors of perception. Ranging from the British colonial era in Africa to the recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Military Anthropology illustrates the conceptual, cultural and practical barriers encountered by military organisations operating in societies vastly different from their own.
The Culture of War
The Culture of War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Culture of War write by Martin Van Creveld. This book was released on 2009. The Culture of War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A respected scholar of military history and an expert on strategy, Martin van Creveld argues in "The Culture of War" that there is much more to war than just soldiers killing one another. War has always been a deeply fascinating subject. Fighting itself can be a source of great, perhaps even the greatest, joy - and out of this joy and fascination an entire culture has grown - from the war paint of tribal warriors to today's 'tiger suits', from Julius Caesar's red cloak to Douglas McArthur's pipe, from the decorative shields of ancient Greece to aircraft nose art, and from the invention of chess around AD 600 to cyber era combat simulators. The culture of war has had its own traditions, laws, rituals, music, art, literature, and monuments since the beginning of civilisation. Through the ages, the culture of war has usually been highly esteemed. Not so in many countries today, which tend either to mock it ('military intelligence is to intelligence what military music is to music') or to denounce it as 'militaristic'. This provocative book sets out to show how wrongheaded, and even dangerous, such attitudes are. "The Culture of War" argues that men and women today, contrary to the hopes of some, are just as fascinated by war as they have been in the past. A military that has lost touch with the culture of war is doomed not merely to defeat but to disintegration. Innovative, authoritative, and riveting, "The Culture of War" is a major work done by one of the world's greatest and most insightful military historians.
