Anthropology and the United States Military ― Coming of Age in the 21st Century

Seven contributions from Frese (anthropology, College of Wooster), Harrell (a social scientist at RAND) and other scholars look at the anthropology of the U.S. military. The volume opens with a discussion of how a new cultural logic emerges from the practice of a newly imposed military mission that of peacekeeper. Other topics include, for example, the cultural system of military kinship and family, reasons for the absence of significant anthropology course offerings at the Naval Academy, and how the officer-enlisted dichotomy parallels the upper-class/working-class division in the larger society. Library of Congress cataloguing shows the title as Anthropology of the United States Military.... Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Pamela R. Frese is Professor of Anthropology at the College of Wooster and editor of Transcending Boundaries: Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to the Study of Gender.

Margaret C. Harrell is Senior Social Scientist at RAND and author of numerous RAND publications.