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Henrik Vigh, Navigating Terrains of War: youth and soldiering in Guinea-Bissau.(Book review)
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March 22, 2008
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- Einarsdottir, Jonina
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Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2008 Edinburgh University Press. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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HENRIK VIGH, Navigating Terrains of War: youth and soldiering in Guinea-Bissau. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books (pb 15.00 [pounds sterling]-978 18454 5149 3 and hb 45.00 [pounds sterling]-978 18454 5148 6). 2006, 268 pp.
In this book anthropologist Henrik Vigh aims to shed light on the motives of young men who were recruited as Aguentas, a militia, in support of President Joao Bernardo 'Nino' Vieira during the eleven-month war following a military uprising in Guinea-Bissau in June 1998. His work rests on sixteen months of fieldwork in Bissau from January 2000 to November 2003.
In the first part of the book the theoretical approach and setting are outlined. Vigh ...
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