Introduction: Considering anthropology and small wars
Montgomery McFate
1. Combat anthropologist: Charles T. R. Bohannan, counter-insurgency pioneer, 1936-1966
Jason S. Ridler
2. Archaeology and small wars
Christopher Jasparro
3. Identity wars: collective identity building in insurgency and counterinsurgency
Heather S. Gregg
4. Lost in translation: anthropologists and Marines in Iraq and Afghanistan
Paula Holmes-Eber
5. Beyond faith and foxholes: vernacular religion and asymmetrical warfare within contemporary IDF combat units
Nehemia Stern and Uzi Ben Shalom
6. Doing one’s job: translating politics into military practice in the Norwegian mentoring mission to Iraq
Kjetil Enstad
7. ‘The perfect counterinsurgent’: reconsidering the case of Major Jim Gant
David B. Edwards
8. Francis FitzGerald’s Fire in the Lake, state legitimacy and anthropological insights on a revolutionary war
Paul B. Rich
9. Accidental ethnographers: the Islamic State’s tribal engagement experiment
Craig Whiteside and Anas Elallame
10. The anthropology of Al-Shabaab: the salient factors for the insurgency movement’s recruitment project
Mohamed Haji Ingiriis
Biography
Dr. Montgomery McFate is professor at the US Naval War College. Dr. McFate received a BA from UC Berkeley, a PhD in Anthropology from Yale, and a JD from Harvard Law School. She is the author of Military Anthropology (Oxford University Press, 2018) and editor of Social Science Goes to War (Oxford University Press, 2015).
