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Virtual War and Magical Death: Technologies and Imaginaries for Terror and Killing - The Cultures and Practice of Violence Neil L Whitehead
Virtual War and Magical Death: Technologies and Imaginaries for Terror and Killing - The Cultures and Practice of Violence
Neil L Whitehead
The contributors to this provocative collection scrutinize the relations between anthropology and contemporary global war, contending that modern high-tech warfare is analogous to rituals of magic and sorcery, and examining the U. S. military's exploitation of ethnographic research.
304 pages, 15 photographs, 2 tables
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | April 19, 2013 |
| ISBN13 | 9780822354475 |
| Publishers | Duke University Press |
| Pages | 304 |
| Dimensions | 155 × 232 × 18 mm · 464 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Finnstrom, Sverker |
| Editor | Whitehead, Neil L. |