Having conducted ethnological research of peacekeeping organizations and activities since 1998, Rubinstein (anthropology and international relations, Syracuse U.) here offers a framework for understan
The international community increasingly responds to civil wars, humanitarian crises, and other intrastate conflicts through the instrument of UN peacekeeping. Nearly all of these interventions take p
"Doing Fieldwork warrants our attention because its message, bolstered by the editor's new introduction, is that the 1930's heralded a paradigm shift in anthropology, and further that this shift in fa
Policymakers and strategists have found ethnographic data useful in military decision-making, note McNamara (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico) and Rubinstein (sociology and anthro
