Pinelandia

An Anthropology and Field Poetics of War and Empire

Nomi Stone (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

308 Seiten

2022
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-34436-5 (ISBN)

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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 predeployment 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 consequences 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.

Nomi Stone is an award-winning anthropologist and poet. An Assistant Professor of Poetry at the University of Texas, Dallas, she was most recently a Postdoctoral Fellow in Anthropology at Princeton. She is author of two ethnographic collections of poetry, Stranger's Notebook and Kill Class, and her poems appear in The Atlantic, The New Republic, The Nation, and widely elsewhere.

Contents

Acknowledgments

[Field Poem]
Introduction: The Pins Fall through the Pines

[Field Poem]
1. The Making of Human Technology

[Field Poem]
2. The Iraq Warscape and the Cultural Turn

[Field Poem]
3. The Theaters of War

[Field Poem]
4. Left and Right Limits

[Field Poem]
5. Affective Maneuvers

[Field Poem]
6. Becoming Human Technology

[Field Poem]
Conclusion: The Pins Fall through the Pines

[Field Poem]
Epilogue: Field Poetry

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	20.10.2022
Reihe/Serie	Atelier: Ethnographic Inquiry in the Twenty-First Century ; 8
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-34436-7 / 0520344367
ISBN-13	978-0-520-34436-5 / 9780520344365
Zustand	Neuware