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U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM): Commemorating Columbus Day 2010
Readers will appreciate that a tremendous amount of historical research, and interviews with participants, went into this project to present the true history of the voyages of Christopher Columbus to...
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Further Militarization of the Academy: Florida International University,...
Many thanks to Adrienne Pine for this important alert, ”An Urgent Message to Academics about SOUTHCOM.” In that she presents us with evidence of a striking deepening of the alliance between U.S....
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Updates to U.S. Army Human Terrain System News
I have some urgent updates to my last article, “U.S. Army Human Terrain System News: Hamilton Deserves Credit, CG TRADOC in Trouble, Training Woes“: “Please warn your sources in HTS that TRADOC G2...
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The Leavenworth Diary: Double Agent Anthropologist Inside the Human Terrain...
[Max Forte: The following article by John Allison, an anthropologist and former employee of the U.S. Army's Human Terrain System, offers us an inside look at the workings of HTS and its training...
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At AJP: Expanding the Human Terrain System and Militarizing Anthropology in...
For those who are interested, this is just a brief note of two relevant items posted on the website of Anthropologists for Justice and Peace. One, building on what John Stanton has provided in the...
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Caring for Aboriginals? The Politics of Anthropology in Australia
People just joining this debate will have some homework to do first, to better understand what follows below. Here is some of the history of the discussion. We began focusing attention on a debate...
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So You Want to Join the Human Terrain System: Welcome, Anthropologist
An excellent little video that neatly summarizes, in the appropriately burlesque fashion, the situation of unqualified anthropologists who join the Human Terrain System, and the desperate and deceitful...
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Hortense Powdermaker and the Mechanized Mind: The Problem of Method and the...
An establishment anthropologist, and a renegade–Hortense Powdermaker (bio1, bio2, bio3, bio4, bio5) worked on some unique projects that differed from the anthropological standard of her time...
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Challenging America’s Pharaoh: A Revolutionary Movement and the Future of...
The fall of the killer سقوط السفاح Protester carrying anti-Mubarak poster in Tahrir Square. Photo by Hossam el-Hamalawy Originally published by CounterPunch, and reproduced with permission of the...
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The American Anthropological Association and Egypt: It’s Mostly About the...
I was getting really upset that every time I went on a show, all you would see is “Crisis in Cairo,” “Unrest in Egypt.” And they were totally missing the historical significance of what was happening....
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Declaring the U.S. Army’s Human Terrain System a Success: Rereading the CNA...
[First, many thanks to John Stanton for notifying us of the release of the report discussed below, available here, and for his article. Here I take a somewhat different approach in describing and...
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Empire and the Liberation of Veiled Women: Lutz & Collins
In “The Color of Sex: Postwar Photographic Histories of Race and Gender,” by Catherine A. Lutz and Jane L. Collins (reprinted in The Anthropology of Media: A Reader, 2002, pps. 92-116), we encounter...
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Encircling Empire: Report #13—Revolution, Intervention, Anthropology
Encircling Empire: Report #13—Revolution, Intervention, Anthropology Encircling Empire Reports is a selection of essays, blog posts, and news reports covering a given time period. They are intended to...
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Peace Corps and Afghanistan
The information and discussion about the activities of and the accumulation of various forms of capital by some Peace Corps Volunteers (PCVs)—all in South America—is interesting (Anthropology News,...
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Encircling Empire: Report #18—Elections, Independence, Counterinsurgency
Encircling Empire Reports is a selection of essays, blog posts, and news reports covering a given time period, providing links and representative extracts or key passages from each resource, usually...
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The End of Debates About the Human Terrain System?
The End of Debates? Having been asked (and declined) to write commentaries, or respond to one or another essay on the Human Terrain System (HTS) over the past 18 months, I realized that I had enough,...
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Distorting Theory and Misreading Society in Afghanistan
This is in response to M. Nazif Shahrani’s piece titled “The Taliban Enigma: Person-Centered Politics & Extremism in Afghanistan” published in ISIM Newsletter 6, October 2000, pp. 20-21. Crucial...
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Democracy in Cuba and at Home
Review essay, Part 1 (see Part 2) Cuba and its Neighbours: Democracy in Motion. By Arnold August. Halifax: Fernwood Publishing; London: Zed Books. 2013. ISBN 978-1-55266-404-9. 267 pages (not including...
View ArticleBook Review: Afghanistan Post–2014—Misreading Afghanistan’s Crypto-coloniality
Review of: Afghanistan Post-2014: Power Configurations and Evolving Tragectories. Edited by Rajen Harshe’ and Dhananjay Tripathi. (New Delhi: Routledge), 2016, pp. xix+248. The colonial and...
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From Hollywood to Hitler: Rethinking the Cultural Politics of Propaganda
What is propaganda? What does cinema reveal about the Third Reich and its people? What are German films about during the Third Reich? What do they reveal? And what are they hiding? What does cinema...
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