TIME: What Happens if We Leave Afghanistan (story) BOING BOING: What Still Happened Despite 10 Years of Occupying Afghanistan (story) ZERO ANTHRO: What Happens When We Don’t Fix Problems at Home (story) The August 9th TIME magazine cover story is about a young Afghan woman whose nose and ears have been allegedly “mutilated” by the Taleban.… [Read more…]
August 5, 2010 by Maximilian Forte
For more than a hundred years anthropology has been spreading sweetness and light. And now that the results are in—now that even the strangest customs from the remotest places have been recognized as truly human and entirely natural—it is plain that the popular verdict has been an enthusiastic assent. Its ethical understandings are widely regarded… [Read more…]
August 4, 2010 by Maximilian Forte
Here is an extremely useful web site for searching through the Afghan War Diary, using search terms of your choosing You don’t need to download the entire records, and run time consuming searches on your hard drive. (rather than just category, event type, region, affiliation, date)…effectively “Googlizing” the records, which is what some of us… [Read more…]
August 3, 2010 by Maximilian Forte
This is probably my favourite YouTube video for the year–an astonishing application of the raw data from the Afghanistan war logs released by Wikileaks. It is deceptively simple, but as an amateur video editor I can only begin to imagine the formidable knowledge and skills required to animate this data, and to send a message… [Read more…]
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August 5, 2010 by M. Jamil Hanifi
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