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The proliferation of 'new wars' since the end of the Cold War has forced scholars to re-open the debate about 'what is war?' For most commentators, 'new war' is 'mindless' mass action. It has become a behavioural problem. Like a disease, the risk of infection must be contained.
This book takes a different approach. Anthropologists, who have lived with and through the wars they describe here, reflect a paradoxical assumption that to understand war we must deny it a special status. Rather than quarantine war and leave it to security specialists they grasp its character as but one among many aspects of social reality, organised by social agents, made through social action. All war is long-term struggle organised for political ends, and neither the means nor the ends can be understood without reference to a specific social context.
This book takes a different approach. Anthropologists, who have lived with and through the wars they describe here, reflect a paradoxical assumption that to understand war we must deny it a special status. Rather than quarantine war and leave it to security specialists they grasp its character as but one among many aspects of social reality, organised by social agents, made through social action. All war is long-term struggle organised for political ends, and neither the means nor the ends can be understood without reference to a specific social context.
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- EditoreOhio Univ Pr
- Data di pubblicazione2004
- ISBN 10 0821415751
- ISBN 13 9780821415757
- RilegaturaCopertina rigida
- Numero di pagine214
- RedattoreRichards Paul, Helander Bernhard
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