Considering anthropology and small wars/ Montgomery McFate
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Small Wars & Insurgencies Vol. 31, No.2, March 2020, pp.211-218 (97)Summary: All of the papers that comprise this special edition offer insights into the variety of ways in which anthropology and the military intersect. They also point to a variety of questions that remain to be addressed: first, what advantages does an ethnographic or archeological research approach that seeks to understand the adversary, civilian population or partner government in situ provide the military? second, what contributions have anthropologists made to the military by virtue of their knowledge, approach, or methodology that could not (or has not) been offered by scholars from different disciplines? third, what is the future of military anthropology (if indeed such a field exists)?
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All of the papers that comprise this special edition offer insights into the variety of ways in which anthropology and the military intersect. They also point to a variety of questions that remain to be addressed: first, what advantages does an ethnographic or archeological research approach that seeks to understand the adversary, civilian population or partner government in situ provide the military? second, what contributions have anthropologists made to the military by virtue of their knowledge, approach, or methodology that could not (or has not) been offered by scholars from different disciplines? third, what is the future of military anthropology (if indeed such a field exists)?
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