
Catherine LutzBrown University · Department of Anthropology
Catherine Lutz
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War holds consequences for people and their communities that include death, disease, environmental deterioration, and the loss of social services such as quality healthcare. This chapter introduces some of these far-reaching public health consequences of armed combat, drawing on literature from medical anthropology and ethnographies of armed combat...
This chapter explores the representational power of maps and the violence inherent in removing volume with two-dimensional ‘objectivity’. The focus is on maps, norms and militarist institutions in Guam, foregrounding underexplored aesthetic dimensions in reports on the environmental impact of the US presence. The impact of overseas US bases is stri...
Militarization describes the historical social process by which investments in military institutions and particular and positive kinds of thinking about military personnel and activities have shaped global human life. Research using the concept of militarization has examined the intensification of the land, labor, and material resources allocated t...
The emotional life of car drivers and passengers in the United States is complex, with car marketing and a wider car system of infrastructure, regulation, risk, and profit shaping those affects. Based on anthropological research with drivers, buyers, marketers, and emergency personnel, this paper outlines a political economy of automobile affect in...
The emotional life of car drivers and passengers in the United States is complex, with car marketing and a wider car system of infrastructure, regulation, risk, and profit shaping those affects. Based on anthropological research with drivers, buyers, marketers, and emergency personnel, this paper outlines a political economy of automobile affect in...
The contemporary world is one of restless mobilities, radically morphing physical landscapes, baroque technologies, new forms of governance and subjectivity, and onerous inequalities. The automobile provides vivid insight into all five phenomena as well as into their relationship. I ask how the car-dependent mobility system of the United States not...
The rise of the automobile as the dominant mode of transportation in the cities of the global North over the twentieth century and its meteoric rise elsewhere at the turn of the twenty-first century is under-recognized as a force fundamentally shaping urban areas. Beyond contributing to urban sprawl and climate change that will impact the world's c...
The United States, and its allies, the UN, NGOs, and the World Bank, have injected billions of dollars into what is commonly termed the “reconstruction” of Afghanistan since the war began in 2001. This paper focuses on United States spending on aid in Afghanistan, describing the rationale government officials have given for the aid, what they have...
Le emozioni sono una di quelle nozioni considerate scontate sia dalla conoscenza specialistica che dal discorso quotidiano, che stanno ora diventando parte del dominio della ricerca antropologica. Nonostante che siano ancora principalmente appannaggio della filosofia e della psicologia all’interno delle discipline accademiche, le emozioni sono anch...
Anthropology's Engagement With War's Dominant Moral Models The Emergent Moral Margins of War and the Legitimated Center The Demoralization and Management of War Conclusion References
ABSTRACT This review offers a sampling of the kinds of public projects anthropologists launched in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, and it reflects on some of the ways in which that event has had a profound and lasting effect on the public aspects of our discipline. Rather than reviewing all of the public roles that anthropologists played following...
Many US soldiers who return home from Iraq have or will develop crippling psychological problems — by one estimate, fully 40 percent of combat veterans. Among the most common diagnoses given them is Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), an affliction resulting from exposure to traumatic events that, according to the American Psychiatric Associatio...
Systematic patterns of sexual exploitation and abuse have emerged around UN peacekeeping missions over the course of many years. These include, most egregiously, peacekeepers’ exchange of UN food supplies or money for sex with young girls and sometimes boys as well as sexual assault. This paper examines the cultural and political economic roots of...
Anthropologists are increasingly called on to work within and for military institutions in the United States. The entanglement of anthropological knowledge and military power should be set in context of the monumental growth and size and the imperial deployment of the U.S. military. There has been a striking absence of work in anthropology around t...
The Pentagon has launched the Minerva Initiative, a $50 million effort to direct social science research toward national security goals, including particular questions about the Chinese military, ideological trends in Islam, and terrorist organizations. While a small fraction of the Department of Defense's $85 billion R & D budget, this Initiative...
This chapter suggests a theoretical account of militarization and its relationship to broader social changes, from the emergence of nation-states to the course of racialization and other inequalities to the convergence of interests in military spending. It ives a terse account of the twentieth-century history of the militarization process and of th...
The Gaze and its SignificanceA Multitude of GazesConclusion
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My War: Killing Time in Iraq. Colby Buzzell. New York: Putnam Adult, 2005. 354 pp., works cited.
The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq. John Crawford. New York: Riverhead Books, 2005. xiv + 219 pp.
One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer. Nathaniel Fick. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. 372 pp...
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Recent writing that identifies the United States as an empire has focused overwhelmingly on its political-economic underpinnings, without questioning the cultural making of value or examining empire as more than an elite project. This writing has not drawn on ethnographic work that would reshape it in more adequate, less economistic forms, make the...
The crusty critic Paul Fussell observed that wars are always ironic, because things always end up so far from the glory-trailing myths that help start them. Irony, though, pales beside the fear and anger that now swirl around Fort Bragg, North Carolina, the source of many of the troops sent to Afghanistan. It was there that four soldiers recently c...
Our job as intellectuals, this article argues, is to struggle to understand the crisis presented by terrorism in all its forms. This can center on a theoretical account of militarization and its relationship to broader social changes, from the emergence of nationstates to the course of racialization and other inequalities to the convergence of inte...
The South Atlantic Quarterly 101.2 (2002) 285-296
"How can you separate us?" Colonel Korn inquired with ironical tranquility.
"That's right," Colonel Cathcart cried emphatically. "You're either for us or against us. There's no two ways about it."
"I'm afraid he's got you," added Colonel Korn. "You're either for us or against your country. It's as s...
This article compares the sociopolitical context of the origin of the Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) to the period of its radical expansion during the 1990s. In its early years, military training aimed to Americanize new Southern and Eastern European immigrants while easing upper-class fears of social tensions and building support fo...
The articles that compose this journal issue incorporate a variety of perspectives, including psychology, Bakhtinian literary criticism, practice theory, sociology of science, pragmatic linguistics, and other approaches. The articles address “the problem of theory” and the organizational development of various forms of constructivism. Among other i...
In this volume, prominent American and European scholars explore the historical shaping of psychological discourse. Speaking from several disciplinary standpoints, attention is directed to the ideological, intellectual, political, economic and literary forces that enter into the cultural construction of mental life. In its explorations, the volume...
This volume, which grows out of The Quality of Life (eds. Martha Nussbaum and Amartya Sen, 1993), combines philosophical inquiry with economic concerns regarding women's equality in the developing world. Adopting Amartya Sen's capability framework, international contributors tackle issues of cultural relativism vs. cultural imperialism on the one h...
For its millions of readers, the National Geographic has long been a window to the world of exotic peoples and places. In this fascinating account of an American institution, Catherine A. Lutz and Jane L. Collins explore the possibility that the magazine, in purporting to teach us about distant cultures, actually tells us much more about our own. L...
A full understanding of human action requires an understanding of what motivates people to do what they do. For too many years studies of motivation and of culture have drawn from different theoretical paradigms. Typically, human motivation has been modelled on animal behaviour, while culture has been described as pure knowledge or symbol. The resu...
List of contributors Preface 1. Introduction: emotion, discourse, and the politics of everyday life Lila Abu-Lughod and Catherine A. Lutz 2. Shifting politics in Bedouin love poetry Lila Abu-Lughod 3. Moral discourse and the rhetoric of emotions Geoffrey M. White 4. Engendered emotion: gender, power, and the rhetoric of emotional control in America...
The chapters in this book, which emerged out of several years of organized reassessment of the field, reflect on an ongoing revitalization indexed by numerous recent collections focusing on the intersection of culture and psychology.
Each variety of psychological anthropology discussed in this book approaches problems of mind, culture, and experi...
The National Geographic magazine is of tremendous potential cultural importance. Its photographs have voraciously focused on Third World scenes, its over 10 million subscriber households make it as popular a source of images as any in American mass mediated culture, and its lavish production capabilities and cultural legitimacy as a scientific inst...
"An outstanding contribution to psychological anthropology. Its excellent ethnography and its provocative theory make it essential reading for all those concerned with the understanding of human emotions."âKarl G. Heider, American Anthropologist
Writing, citation, and other canon-setting patterns in the recent (1977–86) literature of sociocultural anthropology reveal the impact of gender relations. In this article, citation is treated as a social practice which, among other things, legitimizes the voice of the cited author. While women produce a substantial proportion of the work available...
Extensive ethnographic research has been conducted on the emotion lexicon in the last 10 years. The anthropologists who have done this work have generally used traditional participant observation methods to discover the form and function of the vocabulary of emotion as it is used in natural, everyday contexts. Some of this research has attempted to...
The papers in this volume, a multidisciplinary collaboration of anthropologists, linguists, and psychologists, explore the ways in which cultural knowledge is organized and used in everyday language and understanding. Employing a variety of methods, which rely heavily on linguistic data, the authors offer analyses of domains of knowledge ranging ac...
A substantial portion of the islands of the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands have been effectively annexed by the United States. The near-culmination of the process of incorporation was reached when the two houses of Congress gave final approval to a document called the Compact of Free Association on 16 December 1985. The compact grants the V...
To observe the variety of ways in which children around the world learn to be human is to observe, among other things, the socialization of emotion. This variety, however, has not been explored by those interested in affect. Virtually all of the existing studies of emotional development have been conducted in American settings. Although these studi...
Intelligence means many things to many people, but it is above all a Western cultural concept that has been incorporated into the language and theory of the social sciences. The continued usefulness of this term as currently conceptualized has been seriously called into question (Kamin, 1975; Lewis, 1976). Whether the debate on the existence, natur...
The cognitive organization of the domain of emotion words on the island of Ifaluk is examined. Native speakers define and sort emotion words based on the situation in which the relevant emotion typically occurs. English emotion words, by contrast, are usually organized on physiological principles. Universal dimensions of meaning found in other stud...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Harvard University, 1980.
In this collection of original essays by anthropologists concerned with the relationship of language and emotion, it is argued that the key locus to the study of emotion might be the politics of social life rather than the psychology of the individual. Through close studies of talk about emotion and emotional discourses in social contexts from poet...
examines the ethnopsychology of the Ifaluk of Micronesia and suggests links between their interpretive system, cultural values, and material conditions
further methodological considerations in ethnopsychological description / person, self, and other: categories of agents and variation in consciousness / explaining and evaluating behavior [causali...
Discusses some aspects of how the political economy and culture of permanent war used and shaped psychological science. Taken on to the project of covert warfare and deterrence, the discipline helped construct a new more vigilant self, a self not so much explicitly disciplined as suspicious of itself. There were now public and secret psychologies,...