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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent Book for Undergraduate Classes,
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This review is from: Army of Hope, Army of Alienation: Culture and Contradiction in the American Army Communities of Cold War Germany (Hardcover)
This is a first-rate ethnography of a little known but important community: forward-deployed American solidiers, stationed in Germany at the height of the Cold War. Hawkins mixes profound structural analysis with intimate conversational portraits, to paint a picture of a military community torn between the competing demands of army life and family responsibilities. I used the text in a large undergraduate class, "Cultural Anthropology." The students liked the book very much, and used it to test and apply the concepts they learned earlier in the semester, e.g., "social structure," "kinship," "marriage," "cultural psychology." All in all, we found it be an excellent teaching tool, not to mention an excellent ethnography. I recommend it highly.Charles W. Nuckolls, Ph.D. |
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Army of Hope, Army of Alienation: Culture and Contradiction in the American Army Communities of Cold War Germany by John Palmer Hawkins (Hardcover - May 30, 2001)
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