Description
An edited collection of ethnographic research that seeks to provide visions of and for US military culture from a solid anthropological base. The volume explores several important but relatively unknown cultural variations in the defense community through a variety of lenses. A strong list of contributors highlight important issues such as: anthrax vaccines, the ‘Golden Age’ culture of the military, gender roles among army spouses, weight control and physical readiness, the military advisor, and the United States Naval Academy. CLEMENTINE FUJIMURA Associate Professor in the Department of Language Studies at the U.S. Naval Academy, Maryland, USA JEANNE GUILLEMIN Professor at Boston College, USA, Senior Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Security Studies Program, USA JOSHUA LINFORD-STEINFELD Doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, USA in the program in Medical Anthropology, a joint program with the University of California at San Francisco ROBERT A. RUBINSTEIN Professor of Anthropology and of International Relations in the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, New York, USA ANNA SIMONS Associate professor of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, Canada
