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Anthropology of War and Peace

Undergraduate · Historical course

Fall 2004

This class has been reorganized to focus primarily on the War in Iraq. As in previous years, the class still examines war in cross-cultural perspective, asking whether war is intrinsic to human nature, what causes war, how particular cultural experiences of war differ, and how war has affected American culture.

Readings

  • Gourevitch, Philip. We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families . 1st ed. New York, NY: Macmillan, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. ISBN: 9780374286972.
    Required
  • Swofford, Anthony. Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles . New York NY: Scribner, 2003. ISBN: 9780743235358.
    Required
  • Sifry, Micah, and Christopher Cerf, eds. The Iraq War Reader: History, Documents, Opinions . New York, NY: Touchstone Books, 2003. ISBN: 9780743253475.
    Required
  • Rampton, Sheldon, and John Stauber. Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush’s War on Iraq . New York, NY: Tarcher/Penguin, 2003. ISBN: 9781585422760.
    Required
  • Freud, Sigmund. “Why War?” In Aggression, Hostility and Violence: Nature or Nurture? Edited by Terry Maple and Douglas Matheson. New York, NY: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1972, pp. 16-27. ISBN: 9780030853067.
    Listed reading
  • Mead, Margaret. “Warfare is Only an Invention - Not a Biological Necessity.” In Approaches to Peace: A Reader in Peace Studies . Edited by David P. Barash. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 19-22. ISBN: 9780195123869.
    Listed reading
  • James, William. “The Moral Equivalent of War.” In Approaches to Peace: A Reader in Peace Studies . Edited by David P. Barash. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1999, pp. 65-69. ISBN: 9780195123869.
    Listed reading
  • Hedges, Chris. “Introduction.” In War is a Force That Gives us Meaning . New York, NY: Public Affairs Book, 2002, pp. 1-17. ISBN: 9781586480493.
    Listed reading
  • Chagnon, Napoleon. “Life Histories, Blood Revenge, and Warfare in a Tribal Population.” Science 239, no. 4843 (February 26, 1988): 985-992.
    Listed reading
  • Ferguson, Brian. “A Savage Encounter: Western Contact and the Yanomami War Complex.” In War in the Tribal Zone . Edited by Brian Ferguson and Neil Whitehead. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research Press, 2000, pp. 199-227. ISBN: 9780933452800.
    Listed reading
  • Gardner, Robert. Dead Birds , 1965. ↗
    Listed reading
  • Asch, Timothy and Napoleon Chagnon. The Ax Fight , 1975 . ↗
    Listed reading
  • Rosaldo, Renato. “Grief and a Headhunter’s Rage,” and “An Oblique Account of Warfare.” In Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis . Boston, MA: Beacon Press, 1989, pp. 1-21 and 62-67. ISBN: 9780807046081.
    Listed reading
  • Keegan, John. “Agincourt, October 25th, 1415.” Chapter 2 in The Face of Battle. New York, NY: Viking, 1976, pp. 79-116. ISBN: 9780670304325.
    Listed reading
  • Ellis, John. “Battle: The Reality.” In Eye-Deep in Hell: Trench Warfare in World War II . Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989, pp. 89-104. ISBN: 9780801839474.
    Listed reading
  • Branagh, Kenneth. Henry V , 1989, excerpt. ↗
    Listed reading
  • Weir, Peter. Gallipoli , 1981, excerpt. ↗
    Listed reading
  • Rubin, Elizabeth. “Down the Dark Hole of Chechnya.” New York Times Magazine , July 8, 2001.
    Listed reading
  • Ignatieff, Michael. “Virtual War.” In Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond . New York, NY: Metropolitan Books, 2000, pp. 161-215. ISBN: 9780805064902.
    Listed reading
  • Hassan, Nasra. “An Arsenal of Believers.” New Yorker, November 19, 2001, 36-41.
    Listed reading
  • The Triumph of Evil , PBS Frontline documentary. ↗
    Listed reading
  • LEC #: 6-8 · TOPICS: Civil War and Genocide in Rwanda · READINGS: Gourevitch, Philip. We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 1st ed edition, 1998. ISBN: 9780374286972.
    Reading assignment
  • Power, Samantha. “[Dying in Darfur]( http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2004/08/30/040830fa_fact1 ).” The New Yorker, August 30, 2004, 58. ↗
    Listed reading
  • Leaning, Jennifer. “Diagnosing Genocide - The Case of Darfur.” New England Journal of Medicine 351, no. 8 (August 19, 2004): 735-738.
    Listed reading
  • Ryle, John. “ Disaster in Darfur .” New York Review of Books 51, no. 13 (August 12, 2004). ↗
    Listed reading
  • Moeller, Susan. “Compassion Fatigue.” Media Studies Journal (Summer 2001): 108-112.
    Listed reading
  • Ignatieff, Michael. “The Nightmare From Which We Are Trying to Awake.” In The Warrior’s Honor: Ethnic War and the Modern Conscience . New York, NY: Metropolitan Books, 1998, pp. 164-190. ISBN: 9780805055184.
    Listed reading
  • Krog, Antjie. Country of My Skull . Johannesburg, South Africa: Random House, 1998, pp. vi-viii, 23-25, 36, 82-100, and 109-114. ISBN: 9780958419512.
    Listed reading
  • Moyers, Bill. Facing the Truth With Bill Moyers , 1999, excerpts. ↗
    Listed reading
  • Ellsberg, Daniel. Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers . New York, NY: Viking, 2002, pp. vii-x, 7-20, 37-53, 65-73, 81-83, 88-97, 109-132, 141-147, 155-156, and 199-214. ISBN: 9780670030309.
    Listed reading
  • Optional Appy, Chris. Working Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam . Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1993, pp. 11-17, 28-43, and 145-153. ISBN: 9780807843918.
    Listed reading
  • Morris, Errol. The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara , 2003, excerpts. ↗
    Listed reading
  • Broyles, William. “Why Men Love War.” Esquire, November 1984, 55-65.
    Listed reading
  • Gibson, James William. Warrior Dreams: Violence and Manhood in Post Vietnam America . New York, NY: Hill and Wang, 1994, introduction, chapters 1, and 2. ISBN: 9780809015788.
    Listed reading
  • Rangel, Charles. “Bring Back the Draft.” In The Iraq War Reader: History, Documents, Opinions . Edited by Micah Sifry and Christopher Cerf. New York, NY: Touchstone Books, 2003, pp. 434-435. ISBN: 9780743253475.
    Listed reading
  • Optional Appy, Chris. Working Class War: American Combat Soldiers and Vietnam . Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1993, pp. 182-225. ISBN: 9780807843918.
    Listed reading
  • Swofford, Anthony. Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles . New York, NY: Scribner, 2003. ISBN: 9780743235358.
    Listed reading
  • Kotcheff, Ted. Rambo: First Blood , 1982, excerpts. ↗
    Listed reading
  • Sloyan, Patrick. “The Real War.” Media Studies Journal (Summer 2001): 58-63
    Listed reading
  • MacArthur, John. “Operation Desert Muzzle.” Chapter 5 in Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War . Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2004, pp. 146-198. ISBN: 9780520242319.
    Listed reading
  • Mermin, Jonathan. “Introduction.” In Debating War and Peace: Media Coverage of U.S. Intervention in the Post-Vietnam Era . Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999, pp. 3-16. ISBN: 9780691005348.
    Listed reading
  • Friedman, Jonathan. “Impaired Empire.” Anthropological Quarterly (Winter 2001): 95-104.
    Listed reading
  • Rabinow, Paul. “St. Francis at Ground Zero.” Anthropological Quarterly (Winter 2001): 113-116.
    Listed reading
  • Wikan, Unni. “My Son - a Terrorist? (He was Such a Gentle Boy).” Anthropological Quarterly (Winter 2001): 117-128.
    Listed reading
  • Arextaga, Begona. “Terror as Thrill: First Thoughts on the ‘War on Terrorism’.” Anthropological Quarterly (Winter 2001): 139-150.
    Listed reading
  • Gusterson, Hugh. “The McNamara Complex.” Anthropological Quarterly (Winter 2001): 171-177.
    Listed reading
  • Greenwald, Robert. Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on Journalism , 2004. ↗
    Listed reading
  • Knightley, Philip. “Imperial Legacy.” In The Iraq War Reader: History, Documents, Opinions . Edited by Micah Sifry and Christopher Cerf. New York, NY: Touchstone Books, 2003, pp. 5-17. ISBN: 9780743253475.
    Listed reading
  • Makiyah, Kanan. “How Saddam Held onto Power.” In The Iraq War Reader: History, Documents, Opinions . Edited by Micah Sifry and Christopher Cerf. New York, NY: Touchstone Books, 2003, pp. 114-125. ISBN: 9780743253475.
    Listed reading
  • Butler, Richard. “The Inspections and the U.N.: The Blackest of Comedies.” In The Iraq War Reader: History, Documents, Opinions . Edited by Micah Sifry and Christopher Cerf. New York, NY: Touchstone Books, 2003, pp. 174-185. ISBN: 9780743253475.
    Listed reading
  • Wright, Susan. “The hijacking of UNSCOM.” In The Iraq War Reader: History, Documents, Opinions . Edited by Micah Sifry and Christopher Cerf. New York, NY: Touchstone Books, 2003, pp. 186-190. ISBN: 9780743253475.
    Listed reading
  • Schell, Jonathan. “Pre-emptive Defeat, or How Not to Fight Proliferation.” In The Iraq War Reader: History, Documents, Opinions . Edited by Micah Sifry and Christopher Cerf. New York, NY: Touchstone Books, 2003, pp. 506-526. ISBN: 9780743253475.
    Listed reading
  • Project for the New American Century. “An Open Letter to President Clinton.” In The Iraq War Reader: History, Documents, Opinions . Edited by Micah Sifry and Christopher Cerf. New York, NY: Touchstone Books, 2003, pp. 199-201. ISBN: 9780743253475.
    Listed reading
  • Kagan, Robert, and William Kristol. “What to do About Iraq.” In The Iraq War Reader: History, Documents, Opinions . Edited by Micah Sifry and Christopher Cerf. New York, NY: Touchstone Books, 2003, pp. 243-249. ISBN: 9780743253475.
    Listed reading
  • Hitchens, Christopher. “Why I am For Regime Change.” In The Iraq War Reader: History, Documents, Opinions. Edited by Micah Sifry and Christopher Cerf. New York, NY: Touchstone Books, 2003, pp. 440-444. ISBN: 9780743253475.
    Listed reading
  • Jones, Terry. “I’m Losing Patience with my Neighbors, Mr. Bush.” In The Iraq War Reader: History, Documents, Opinions . Edited by Micah Sifry and Christopher Cerf. New York, NY: Touchstone Books, 2003, pp. 453-4. ISBN: 9780743253475.
    Listed reading
  • Assorted Congressmen. “Of Pre-emption and Appeasement: Box-Cutters and Liquid Gold: Excerpts From the October 10, 2002 Congressional Debate.” In The Iraq War Reader: History, Documents, Opinions . Edited by Micah Sifry and Christopher Cerf. New York, NY: Touchstone Books, 2003, pp. 359-366. ISBN: 9780743253475.
    Listed reading
  • Byrd, Senator Robert. “No Place for Kings in America.” In The Iraq War Reader: History, Documents, Opinions . Edited by Micah Sifry and Christopher Cerf. New York, NY: Touchstone Books, 2003, pp. 375-377. ISBN: 9780743253475.
    Listed reading
  • Sifry, Micah. “The Second Superpower.” In The Iraq War Reader: History, Documents, Opinions . Edited by Micah Sifry and Christopher Cerf. New York, NY: Touchstone Books, 2003, pp. 486-489. ISBN: 9780743253475.
    Listed reading
  • Renner, Michael. “Post-Saddam Iraq: Linchpin of a New Oil Order.” In The Iraq War Reader: History, Documents, Opinions. Edited by Micah Sifry and Christopher Cerf. New York, NY: Touchstone Books, 2003, pp. 580-587. ISBN: 9780743253475.
    Listed reading
  • Coulter, Ann. “Why We Hate Them.” In The Iraq War Reader: History, Documents, Opinions . Edited by Micah Sifry and Christopher Cerf. New York, NY: Touchstone Books, 2003, pp. 333-335. ISBN: 9780743253475.
    Listed reading
  • Lemann, Nicholas. “The Next World Order.” In The Iraq War Reader: History, Documents, Opinions . Edited by Micah Sifry and Christopher Cerf. New York, NY: Touchstone Books, 2003, pp. 253-265. ISBN: 9780743253475.
    Listed reading
  • Krauthammer, Charles. “The Unipolar Moment Revisited: America, the Benevolent Empire.” In The Iraq War Reader: History, Documents, Opinions . Edited by Micah Sifry and Christopher Cerf. New York, NY: Touchstone Books, 2003, pp. 593-607. ISBN: 9780743253475.
    Listed reading
  • Rampton, Sheldon, and John Stauber. Weapons of Mass Deception: The Uses of Propaganda in Bush’s War on Iraq. New York, NY: Tarcher/Penguin, 2003, chapters 2, 3, 6, and 7. ISBN: 9781585422760.
    Listed reading
  • Achbar, Mark and Peter Wintonick. Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media , 1992, excerpts. ↗
    Listed reading
  • Magder, Ted. “Watching What We Say: Global Communication in a Time of Fear.” In War and the Media: reporting conflict 24/7 . Edited by Daya Kishan Thussu and Des Freedman. London, UK: Sage 2003, pp. 28-44. ISBN: 9780761943136.
    Listed reading
  • Webster, Frank. “Information Warfare in an Age of Globalization.” In War and the Media: reporting conflict 24/7 . Edited by Daya Kishan Thussu and Des Freedman. London, UK: Sage 2003, pp. 57-69. ISBN: 9780761943136.
    Listed reading
  • Thussu, Daya Kishan. “Live TV and Bloodless Deaths: War, Infotainment, and 24/7 News.” In War and the Media: reporting conflict 24/7 . Edited by Daya Kishan Thussu and Des Freedman. London, UK: Sage 2003, pp. 117-132. ISBN: 9780761943136.
    Listed reading
  • Williams, Bruce. “The New Media Environment, Internet Chatrooms, and Public Discourse after 9/11.” In War and the Media: reporting conflict 24/7 . Edited by Daya Kishan Thussu and Des Freedman. London, UK: Sage 2003, pp. 176-189. ISBN: 9780761943136.
    Listed reading
  • McChesney, Robert. “September 11 and the Structural Limitations of US Journalism.” In Journalism After September 11 . Edited by Barbie Zelizer and Stuart Allen. New York, NY: Routledge, 2002, pp. 91-100. ISBN: 9780415288002.
    Listed reading
  • Garrels, Anne. Naked in Baghdad: The Iraq War as Seen by NPR’s Correspondent. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003, pp. 113-115; 119-120, 122-127, 128-131, 149-152, 154-157, 168-170, 176-182, and 185-190. ISBN: 9780374529031.
    Listed reading
  • Manyon, Julian. “Worse Than Vietnam.” The Spectator, May 8, 2004, 14-15.
    Listed reading
  • Graham, Patrick. “Beyond Falluhah: A Year With the Iraqi Resistance.” Harpers, June 2004, 37-48.
    Listed reading
  • Baum, Dan. “The Price of Valor.” The New Yorker, July 12/19, 2004, 44-52.
    Listed reading
  • Corbett, Sara. “Coming Home: The Permanent Scars of Iraq.” New York Times Magazine, February 15, 2004, 34-66.
    Listed reading
  • Olds, Ian, and Garrett Scott. Occupation: Dreamland , 2005. ↗
    Listed reading
  • Hersh, Seymour. “Torture at Abu Ghraib.” The New Yorker, May 10, 2004.
    Listed reading
  • ———. “The Gray Zone: How a Secret Pentagon Program Came to Abu Ghraib.” The New Yorker, May 24, 2004.
    Listed reading
  • Barry, John, et al. “The Roots of Torture.” Newsweek, May 24, 2004.
    Listed reading
  • Blanche, Ed. “The Secret Gulags.” Middle East, July 2004.
    Listed reading
  • Sontag, Susan. “Regarding the Torture of Others.” New York Times Magazine, May 23, 2004.
    Listed reading
  • Lifton, Robert Jay. “Conditions of Atrocity.” The Nation (May 31, 2004).
    Listed reading
  • ———. “Doctors and Torture.” New England Journal of Medicine (July 29, 2004).
    Listed reading
  • Zizek, Zlavoj. “What Rumsfeld Doesn’t Know That He Knows About Abu Ghraib.” In These Times, June 21, 2004.
    Listed reading
  • Moore, Patrick. “Weapons of Mass Homophobia.” The Advocate, June 8, 2004.
    Listed reading
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