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
Having conducted ethnological research of peacekeeping organizations and activities since 1998, Rubinstein (anthropology and international relations, Syracuse U.) here offers a framework for understan
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
"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
