Open to the Military For those following the current conflict between the Open Anthropology Project (OAP) and the Open Anthropology Cooperative (OAC), outlined in these three posts (1, 2, 3) and the extensive commentary that follows them, readers will know that one of the key actors in this has been Keith Hart, who established the… [Read more…]
August 29, 2009 by Maximilian Forte
Hopefully this new post will not bring to an abrupt end the discussion that continued in the comments to the last post. One of the administrators of the “Open Anthropology Cooperative” has issued the OAC’s first coherent statement regarding “the name issue,” which as I have explained is about much more than just a name.… [Read more…]
August 27, 2009 by Maximilian Forte
“To understand a name you must be acquainted with the particular of which it is a name.” –Bertrand Russell (p. 182) “The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.” –Aldous Huxley (source) As Huxley also said, “facts do not cease to exist because they are… [Read more…]
August 26, 2009 by Maximilian Forte
Terrible burden this is, to have to play the hero defending his good name on the battlefield. Ah but such is the life of the immortal one…and there can be only one. What’s in a name, an expropriated, coopted, appropriated name? For anthropologists, quite a lot. Names do matter. They know that. And if it… [Read more…]
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August 31, 2009 by Maximilian Forte
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