"The Narrative of Imperialism: Revisiting the Ugly American (Anthropologist)...........
I seem to be missing the action in this year's AAA meetings. Here is a round up. Maximilian Forte's extensive piece (the Narrative of Imperialism) below worths reading....
Secrecy and Anthropology
By Maximilian Forte
From Inside Higher Ed, Dec. 3, 2007:. With debate over the role of anthropologists in aiding the military machine a theme threading through their annual meeting, scholars voted Friday to demand that the American Anthropological ...
Anthropologists condemn Defense Department project
Princeton University The Daily Princetonian - NJ, United States
"Could this be the end of anthropology as we know it?" he asked. Though Borneman's fear may seem far-fetched, he's not the only one worried. ...
Final report launched: AAA no longer opposes collaboration with CIA and the military
by Lorenz
(post in progress) The American Anthropological Association (AAA) sounds quite diplomatic in its final report on the growing ties between the military and anthropology. The report was released yesterday at the annual AAA meeting and says:.....
Downloading Cultures
Inside Higher Ed - Washington,DC,USA
Evoking associations with musty, forgotten archives and spiral notebooks in the field, anthropology doesn't immediately come to mind as a discipline fully ...
No more secret anthropology
By Peter Suber(Peter Suber)
David Glenn, Anthropologists Vote to Clamp Down on Secret Scholarship, Chronicle of Higher Education News blog, December 1, 2007. Excerpt:. In the latest round of conflict over anthropologists' cooperation with the US military, ...
Downloading Cultures (Story in IHE)
By Jason Baird Jackson(Jason Baird Jackson)
The panel included two friends of Museum Anthropology and Museum Anthropology Review--Kate Hennessey of the University of British Columbia and Alan Burdette of the EVIA Digital Archive and the Archives of Traditional Music here at ...
No more top-secret anthropology...
By Higher Education
for the US intell community.Says the American ANthropology Association.
The Narrative of Imperialism: Revisiting the Ugly American (Anthropologist)
by Maximilian Forte
“In Favour of Anthropological Support for Counterinsurgency”
(Notes from AAA blog #1)
http://aaanewsinfo.blogspot.com/2007/11/aaa-board-statement-on-hts.html
Winning quotes:
“Think about it this way, wouldn’t [it] have been nice if the U.S. military knew that an Arab’s primary source of pride and power was the home and family, and that ‘kicking in doors’ was an afront [sic] to their honor?”
“Lives…will be continue to be lost because of misunderstandings between our cultures.”
Anthropology, secrecy, and ethics
By Jeremy
Inside HigherEd: With debate over the role of anthropologists in aiding the military machine a theme threading through their annual meeting, scholars voted Friday to demand that the American Anthropological Association reinstate strict ...
Secrecy and Anthropology
By tabsir
But Friday's vote only strengthens a recommendation contained in a new report from the AAA Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the US Security and Intelligence Communities, which suggests that the membership or ethics ...
Polluting Publics
by alberto
Anthropologists have recently been writing to each other about the need to launch a massive public relations campaign for the discipline. There seems to be a consensus about the need to make anthropology ‘go public’. We need, so the argument goes, more and better publicity for the discipline.
Biofuels and Indigenous Peoples
by Jovan
Thailand’s The Nation reports on the impact of biofuels on the world’s indigenous peoples. Of particular concern is the impact of deforestation and monocropping that the demand for biofuels is producing. Here’s an excerpt:
