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Anthropology of War and Peace
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- Instructor
- Prof. Hugh Gusterson
- Term
- Fall 2004
- Level
- Undergraduate
- What's inside
- 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 12 other files · 2 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 21A.217 Anthropology of War and Peace, Fall 2004, Prof. Hugh Gusterson — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: MIT's own listing order, section by section. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
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Lecture Notes
12 files
- Introduction Download
- Is War “Natural”? Download
- Experiences of War and Violence I Download
- Experiences of War and Violence II Download
- Civil War and Genocide in Rwanda (PDF 1) Download
- Civil War and Genocide in Rwanda (PDF 2) Download
- Reconciliation After War? Download
- Vietnam I Download
- After Vietnam Download
- The First Gulf War Download
- Media and the First Gulf War Download
- For and Against Invading Iraq I Download
Course outline
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Lecture 2: Is War “Natural”? ( PDF )
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Lecture 3: War and Sociobiology
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Lecture 4: Experiences of War and Violence I ( PDF )
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Lecture 5: Experiences of War and Violence II ( PDF )
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Lecture 9: Darfur
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Lecture 10: Reconciliation After War? ( PDF )
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Lecture 11: Vietnam I ( PDF )
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Lecture 12: After Vietnam ( PDF )
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Lecture 15: Media and the First Gulf War ( PDF )
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Lecture 16: September 11
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Lecture 17: For and Against Invading Iraq I ( PDF )
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Lecture 18: For and Against Invading Iraq II
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Lecture 19: Manufacturing Consent for War
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Lecture 20: Media and the War on Terror
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Lecture 21: Behind Enemy Lines
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Lecture 22: Abu Ghraib
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Lecture 23: Class Presentations
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Lecture 24: Class Presentations (cont.)
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Hugh Gusterson, 21A.217 Anthropology of War and Peace, Fall 2004.
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