Warrior ways : explorations in modern military folklore / edited by Eric A. Eliason and Tad Tuleja.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

I. Deploying -- The things they bring to war / Carol Burke -- Know they enemy: camel spider stories among US troops in the Middle East / Justin M. Oswald -- "Folk-folkloristics": reflections on American soldiers' responses to Afghan traditional culture / Eric A. Eliason -- II. Sounding off -- Where is Jody now? Reconsidering military marching chants / Richard Allen Burns -- Upper echelons and boots on the ground: the case for diglossia in the military / Alinor Levy -- Sea service slang: informal language of the Navy and Coast Guard / Angus Kress Gillespie -- III. Belonging -- Taser to the 'Nads: brutal embrace of queerness in military practice / Mickey Weems -- Making lemondade: military spouses' worldview as a coping mechanism / Kristi Young -- Oppositional positioning: the military identification of young antiwar Veterans / Lisa Gilman -- IV. Remembering -- Colonel Bogey's march through folk and popular culture / Greg Kelley -- Soldier snaps / Jay Mechling -- "America's best": cultural poaching on "Ballad of the Green Berets" / Tad Tuleja.

Warrior Ways is one of the first book-length explorations of military folklife, and focuses on the lore produced by modern American warriors, illuminating the ways in which members of the armed services creatively express the complex experience of military life. In short, lively essays, contributors to the volume, all of whom have close personal or professional relationships to the military, examine battlefield talismans, personal narrative (storytelling), "Jody calls" (marching and running cadences), slang, homophobia and transgressive humor, music, and photography, among other cultur.

English.

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