Resources

ARCHY/ANTH 101: Anthropology of War

University of Washington—Spring 2008

 

Course Overview

Schedule

Projects

 Resources

 

This Resources page includes material that you will need for this course and material that may be useful to you in further studies on the topics we have covered in this class.  It is an evolving list.  Please feel free to send suggestions to Danny, Peter or your TA of things that could be added.

 

General Project Resources:

Map Data Entry Page (use to find the latitude and longitude of your site)

 

Project Part 1 Resources:

Detailed instructions for creating and digitizing your sketch map

Project part 1 evaluation rubric

UW computers: hours, software and hardware lists, etc.

Free training workshops (including on-line tutorials) on graphics programs offered by Catalyst

Helpful tips for scanning

Introduction to archaeological mapping: http://spacegrant.nmsu.edu/lunarlegacies/archaeological_mapping.htm

 

Examples of site documentation projects:

Various US Civil War archaeological documentation projects: http://www.nps.gov/history/seac/civilwar/index.htm

Crisis in Darfur project: http://www.ushmm.org/maps/projects/darfur/

Michael Stanley’s photos of cold war sites: http://mejstanley.com/page2/page2.html

Association for World War Archaeology (Netherlands) http://www.a-w-a.be/eng/index2.html

 

Project Part 2 Resources:

Detailed instructions for finding audio recording equipment on campus and creating MP3 files

How to use the Difficult Dialogues recording equipment

Consent form for interview

Cheryll Alipio's Step By Step Guide to Interviewing

Online tutorial for editing with Audacity

 

Examples of oral history projects:

Veterans History Project (Library of Congress) www.loc.gov/vets/vets-home.html

Voices in Wartime

University of Texas U.S. Latino and Latina World War II Oral History Project. 

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/ww2latinos/index.html

Columbia Journalism Review “Into the Abyss: Reporting Iraq 2003-2006: An Oral History”

http://cjrarchives.org/iraq/

Cambodia: Oral Histories and Biographies

http://www.mekong.net/cambodia/oral_hst.htm

 Australian Veterans Oral History Project

http://www.victoriansatwar.net/overview/

 

 

Seattle history:

Thrush, Coll (2007) Native Seattle. University of Washington Press

            Excerpt from the book: http://www.crosscut.com/tribes/2767/

History Link: http://www.historylink.org/

            Use their search engine to find thumbnail sketches of historic events and places

UW Libraries Special Collections Digital Resources: http://content.lib.washington.edu/sc.html

            Great resource for historical photos, maps, etc.

Museum of History and Industry: http://www.seattlehistory.org/index.cfm

            Another excellent source for historic digital images (click “photo search”)

Wing Luke Museum: http://www.wingluke.org/collections.htm

Pacific Northwest Historians Guild: http://www.pnwhistorians.org/

 

Amazonian Warfare

Laura’s Powerpoint

Heckenberger article

Response to Heckenberger article

 

Iraq Museum

Recent CNN update.

 

 

General books and Articles on Anthropology of War:

(In addition to those from which readings were taken from this course; full citations for those books are in the “schedule” section.)

 

Arkbush, Elizabeth and Mark Allen (eds.) The Archaeology of Warfare: Prehistories of Raiding and Conquest

 

Carman, John (ed.) Material harm: archaeological studies of war and violence

 

Der Derian, James (2003) "War as Game." The Brown Journal of World Affairs 10(1):3748.

 

Gregory, Derek (2006) "Baring Life: Cities, Military Violence, and the Politics of Representation" In City of Collision: Jerusalem and the Principles of Conflict Urbanism. Philipp Misselwitz and Tim Rieniets, eds. Birkhauser: Basel. Pp 212-221.

 

Guilaine, Jean and Jean Zammit The Origins of War: Violence in Prehistory

 

Hatzfeld, Jean Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak

 

Keeley, Lawrence H. War before Civilization

 

Lutz, Catherine (2006) Empire is in the Details. American Ethnologist 33(4):593611.

 

Otterbein, Keith F. How War Began

 

Rowe, John Carlos (2007) "Culture, New Imperialism, and Globalization." In Exceptional State: Contemporary U.S. Culture and New Imperialism. Duke University Press: Durham. Pp. 37-59.

 

Ugresic, Dubravca The Culture of Lies

 

Young, Peter A. The Archaeology of War: Human Conflict Since the Dawn of Civilization

 

 

Useful Websites on Anthropology and War

Brian Ferguson is a leading anthropologist of war. His website includes many of his publications, plus interviews and other information: http://rutgers-newark.rutgers.edu/socant/brian.htm

 

David Price is an Anthropologist who has done a lot of work on the historical relationship between Anthropologists and the US Security and Intelligence sectors.  His website includes resources and a full archive of his many publications. http://homepages.stmartin.edu/fac_staff/dprice/