Dedicated to my colleague and comrade, John Stanton, and to myself. “Isn’t it rich? Are we a pair?” This comes from David H. Price, “Anthropologists as Spies,” The Nation, November 2, 2000: Archeologist Joe Watkins, chairman of the ethics committee, believes that if an anthropologist were caught spying today, “the AAA would not do anything… [Read more…]
December 18, 2009 by Maximilian Forte
On 15 December 2009, John Stanton reported the following: “the US Army HTS had suffered a fourth non-fatal casualty. Sgt. Wesley Cureton was wounded and has lost the use of one eye and has suffered from other head trauma. He is currently at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland. HTS management apparently felt no… [Read more…]
December 5, 2009 by Maximilian Forte
UPDATED: 05 Dec. 2009 – 3:19pm, 3:26pm, 3:36pm, 3:40pm, 3:50pm, 6:37pm, 10:03pm — 06 Dec. 2009 – 3:05am, 10:21am, 11:04am — 09 Dec. 2009 – 12:20am, 12:38am I am utterly distraught by the news that. Dr. Richard Antoun, a very dear former professor of mine in Anthropology at Binghamton University, died yesterday afternoon after having… [Read more…]
December 4, 2009 by Maximilian Forte
This interlude in the series is to finally introduce the work of Dr. Vassos Argyrou (Reader in Social Anthropology at the University of Hull), specifically his book, Anthropology and the Will to Meaning: A Postcolonial Critique (London: Pluto Press, 2002) which I have referred to in the past on several occasions (a condensed version of… [Read more…]
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December 29, 2009 by Maximilian Forte
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