Anthropology and the United States Military

CLEMENTINE FUJIMURA Associate Professor in the Department of Language Studies at the U.S. Naval Academy, Maryland, USAJEANNE GUILLEMIN Professor at Boston College, USA, Senior Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Security Studies Program, USAJOSHUA 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 FranciscoROBERT A. RUBINSTEIN Professor of Anthropology and of International Relations in the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, New York, USAANNA SIMONS Associate professor of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, Canada

• Foreword; J.P.Hawkins Introduction; M.C.Harrell Peacekeeper and Politics: Experience and Political Representation Among United States Military Officers; R.A.Rubenstein Anthrax Vaccines: Medical Risks and the Volunteer Army; J.Guillemin Guardians of the Golden Age: Custodians of U.S. Military Culture; P.R.Frese Gender Roles and Class Among Current Army Spouses; M.C.Harrell Weight Control and Physical Readiness Among Navy Personnel; J.Linford-Steinfeld The Military Advisor as Warrior-King, and Other 'Going Native' Temptations A.Simons Integrating Diversity and Understanding the Other: Cultural Studies at the U.S. Naval Academy; C.Fujimura Conclusion: Anthropology and the U.S. Military; P.R.Frese

"This book puts the emerging field of military anthropology on the social science research map. The rich variety of the chapters offer unique ethnographic insights into US Military culture." - Donna Winslow, Vrije University, Amsterdam"An extraordinarily timely collection of fine articles on the military when the subject matter is in the forefront of most of the people not only in the United States but in the world at large. As anthropology is coming home to their own culture and society and the anthropology of the military is becoming its burgeoning sub-field, the volume demonstrates how anthropological methods and theories, including those by M. Maus, M. Douglas, D. Schneider, P. Bourdieu, and C. Geertz, can be successfully applied to illuminate the issues of the body, kinship, class, individual thoughts and feelings in their day-to-day lives. Written in a lucid prose, the volume should be read by all, in anthropology and beyond." - Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, William F. Vilas Research Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison