Pinelandia : an anthropology and field poetics of war and empire / Nomi Stone.
2022
U293 .S78 2022
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Title
Pinelandia : an anthropology and field poetics of war and empire / Nomi Stone.
Author
ISBN
0520975499 electronic book
9780520975491 (electronic bk.)
9780520344365 hardcover
9780520344372 paperback
9780520975491 (electronic bk.)
9780520344365 hardcover
9780520344372 paperback
Published
Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xii, 291 pages).
Call Number
U293 .S78 2022
System Control No.
(OCoLC)1331413668
Summary
"Across the pine forests and deserts of America, there are mock Middle Eastern villages, mostly hidden from public view. Containing mosques, restaurants, street signs, graffiti in Arabic, and Iraqi role-players, these villages serve as military training sites for cultural literacy and special operations, both seen as crucial to victory in the Global War on Terror. In her gripping and highly original ethnography, anthropologist Nomi Stone explores US military pre-deployment training exercises and the lifeworlds of the Iraqi role-players employed within the mock villages, as they act out to mourn, bargain, and die like the wartime adversary or ally. Spanning fieldwork across the United States and Jordan, Pinelandia traces the devastating consequence of a military project that seeks to turn human beings into wartime technologies recruited to translate, mediate, and collaborate. Theorizing and enacting a field poetics, this work enlarges the ethnographic project into new cross-disciplinary worlds. Pinelandia is a political phenomenology of American empire and Iraq in the twenty-first century"-- Provided by publisher.
Note
Poems included in this book were previously published in Kill Class, Tupelo Press, February, 2019. Used by permission of the publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction : the pins fall through the pines
The making of human technology
The Iraq warscape and the cultural turn
The theaters of war
Epistemological right and left limits
Affective maneuvers
Gypsy, becoming the human technology
Conclusion : the pins fall through the pines
Epilogue : Anthropoetics.
The making of human technology
The Iraq warscape and the cultural turn
The theaters of war
Epistemological right and left limits
Affective maneuvers
Gypsy, becoming the human technology
Conclusion : the pins fall through the pines
Epilogue : Anthropoetics.
Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 13, 2022).
Series
Atelier (Oakland, Calif.) ; 8.
Available in Other Form
Print version: Stone, Nomi. Pinelandia Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2023]
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