TY - BOOK AU - Besteman,Catherine Lowe ED - Network of Concerned Anthropologists. ED - United States. TI - The counter-counterinsurgency manual: or, notes on demilitarizing American society SN - 9780979405747 (pbk. : alk. paper) AV - U241 .B455 2009 U1 - 355.6 PY - 2009/// CY - Chicago, IL PB - Prickly Paradigm Press KW - United States KW - Army KW - Human Terrain System KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Counterinsurgency KW - Iraq KW - Anthropological ethics KW - Military intelligence KW - Evaluation KW - Applied anthropology KW - Iraq War, 2003-2011 KW - Conscientious objectors KW - Anthropology KW - History KW - 21st century KW - Militarism KW - Military policy N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Preface; Marshall Sahlins --; Introduction : war, culture, and counterinsurgency; Roberto González, Hugh Gusterson, David Price --; The military normal; Catherine Lutz --; Militarizing knowledge; Hugh Gusterson --; Faking scholarship; David Price --; Radical or reactionary?; Greg Feldman --; Embedded; Roberto González --; Counter AFRICOM; Catherine Besteman --; Anthropology and HUMINT; Andrew Bickford --; About face!; Kanhong Lin --; Proposals for a humanpolitik; David Vine N2 - Critiques the Pentagon's Counterinsurgency Field Manual, which offered a blueprint for mobilizing the cultural expertise of anthropologists for the war in Iraq. Explores the ethical and intellectual conflicts of the Pentagon's Human Terrain System, and probes the increasing militarization of academic knowledge ER -