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The author offers a candid reassessment of the role of anthropologists in mediating encounters between Western armies and non-Western peoples.

The Human Terrain System (HTS) was catapulted into existence in 2006 by the US military's urgent need for knowledge of the human dimension of the battlespace in Iraq and Afghanistan. Its centrepiece was embedded groups of mixed military and civilian personnel, known as Human Terrain Teams (HTTs), whose mission was to conduct social science research and analysis and to advise military commanders about the local population. Bringing social science - and actual social scientists - to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan was bold and challenging. Despite the controversy over HTS among scholars, there is little good, reliable source material written by those with experience of HTS or about the actual work carried out by teams in theatre. This volume goes beyond the anecdotes, snippets and blogs to provide a comprehensive, objective and detailed view of HTS.

Intro -- Title Page -- preface [2014] -- preface and statement of disclosure [1994] -- list of illustrations and tables -- Chapter One: -- The 'Tribe in the Desert': Anthropology and the War Machine -- a war by any other name... -- bloody theory -- making war on culture -- the anthropology of political violence in Northern Ireland -- the war machine -- Chapter Two: -- Counterinsurgency and Lethal Exchange -- the counter-insurgency loop -- muzzling dogs/suppressing rebellion -- walk softly: constraints on the use of force -- counterinsurgency cul-de-sac -- the dogs of war -- Chapter Three: -- Force and Counter-Force -- peacekeeping -- communists do not play golf -- ubermensch boyscouts -- the terrible paradox -- Chapter Four: -- Permanent Emergency and the Control of Force -- savagery, disorder, terrorism -- the status of war -- cultural permanence -- martial law/military culture -- permanent emergency -- Chapter Five: -- Systems Intelligence/Intelligent Systems -- mastery of the neo-nomadic -- no one is innocent in West Belfast -- point blank -- the tribes at war -- Chapter Six: -- The Death of Culture: Hungerstrikes against Counter-Insurgency -- tradition, famine, law -- spectacular death -- silent bodies, warring bodies -- body-map -- republican mandates -- Chapter Seven: -- In Conclusion: Thing-killing Lethality -- derealization and hyper-vigilant paranoid inversion -- military compassion and anti-politics -- Appendix 1: principle security legislation -- Appendix 2: victorian small wars (1837-1901) -- Appendix 3: brush fire wars -- Appendix 4: security statistics -- Appendix 5: glossary and list of abbreviations -- bibliography -- Footnotes.

Focusing on some of the most important ethnographers in early anthropology, this volume explores twelve defining works in the foundational period from 1870 to 1922. It challenges the assumption that intensive fieldwork and monographs based on it emerged only in the twentieth century. What has been regarded as the age of armchair anthropologists was in reality an era of active ethnographic fieldworkers, including women practitioners and Indigenous experts. Their accounts have multiple layers of meaning, style, and content that deserve fresh reading. This reference work is a vital source for rewriting the history of anthropology