{"product_id":"pinelandia-by-nomi-stone-9780520344372","title":"Pinelandia","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross the pine forests and deserts of America, there are mock Middle Eastern villages, mostly hidden from public view. Containing mosques, restaurants, street signs, graffiti in Arabic, and Iraqi role-players, these villages serve as military training sites for cultural literacy and special operations, both seen as crucial to victory in the Global War on Terror.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn her gripping and highly original ethnography, anthropologist Nomi Stone explores US military predeployment training exercises and the lifeworlds of the Iraqi role-players employed within the mock villages, as they act out to mourn, bargain, and die like the wartime adversary or ally. Spanning fieldwork across the United States and Jordan, \u003cem\u003ePinelandia\u003c\/em\u003e traces the devastating consequences of a military project that seeks to turn human beings into wartime technologies recruited to translate, mediate, and collaborate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTheorising and enacting a field poetics, this work enlarges the ethnographic project into new cross-disciplinary worlds. \u003cem\u003ePinelandia\u003c\/em\u003e is a political phenomenology of American empire and Iraq in the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471346712812,"sku":"9780520344372","price":56.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780520344372-pinelandia.jpg?v=1775240790","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/pinelandia-by-nomi-stone-9780520344372","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}