Anthropological studies of "military culture"
I'm looking for anthropological studies of military culture. Unfortunately, all the publicity that the HTS has collected make Google searches full of "search engine fratricide" and it's difficult to search anthro, culture and military and get anything but thousands of hits on HTS.
I'm interested in seeing what kind of work has been done to evaluate US military culture, in particular from an anthro viewpoint.
Thanks!
Drew
I'd recommend starting with...
Anna Simons...She's a anthropologist that specializes in the anatomy of conflict and teaches in the defense analysis department at NPS. One of her books is entitled The Company they Keep: Life inside the US Army Special Forces.
http://www.amazon.com/COMPANY-THEY-K.../dp/0684828162
I haven't read that book, but I've had two of her classes and read numerous articles. She's very bright and very controversial. She makes you think.
Another consideration is Pamela Frese's Anthropology and the United States Military: Coming of Age in the Twenty-First Century.
Good luck with your search.
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Mike
Drew; not precisely what you asked but
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MILITARY SOCIOLOGY AND ITS COMPONENT AREAS
While sociological analysis of the military has been around for some time (e.g., Durkheim, 1897/1951), military sociology is primarily an outgrowth of World War II (Coates and Pellegrin, 1965) and the subsequent Cold War. Its defining first books were The American Soldier (Stouffer et al., 1949-1950), The Soldier and the State (Huntington, 1957), The Professional Soldier (Janowitz, 1960), and The American Enlisted Man (Moskos, 1970). The first major textbook focused on the sub-field was a Universityof-Maryland-based work titled, Military Sociology: A Study of American Military Institutions and Military Life (Coates and Pellegrin, 1965).
in the ballpark. You can Google the Authors and probably find links to much more.
I've read it and it's good if limited in its subject matter
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Originally Posted by
MikeF
Anna Simons...She's a anthropologist that specializes in the anatomy of conflict and teaches in the defense analysis department at NPS. One of her books is entitled The Company they Keep: Life inside the US Army Special Forces.
She concentrates on SF enlisted guys. Her book was pretty accurate IMO but I understand it annoyed some at SOCOM. Not that there's anything wrong with that...
She used to be married to an SF NCO -- irrelevant, may or may not still be but she's unquestionably sharp and got that book right.