"Sons of the Sea Goddess" demonstrated how house design organizes domestic life through a process of structuration among cultural practices, spatial classifications, and social hierarchies. "Political Violence and Trauma in Argentina" and "Argentina Betrayed" revealed that the intrusion of the home by military assault teams violated spatial, social, gender and ego boundaries that undermined people's trust in each other and the state. In a current project about wartime Rotterdam, the Netherlands, Robben is examining the co-constitution of violent death and material culture. Robben's final area of research concerns the investigation of anthropological research methods. He originated the concept of 'ethnographic seduction' to analyze the conscious and unconscious processes by which interviewees in conflict areas and postwar societies lead ethnographers astray from their research objectives. They seduce fieldworkers into accepting their discourse as the only correct interpretation of reality. Other problems of ethnographic fieldwork in conflict situations were addressed in the edited book "Fieldwork under Fire: Contemporary Studies of Violence and Survival" (co-edited with Carolyn Nordstrom). Robben added an additional methodological step with the edited volume "Iraq at a Distance: What Anthropologists Can Teach Us About the War", which designed a comparative methodology for the anthropological study of war-torn regions inaccessible to ethnographic fieldworkers.