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2010 In Review

December 30, 2010 by

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2010 has been a great year for Zero Anthropology, with so much to celebrate that it’s difficult to know where to begin (and when to stop). From July onward we witnessed a steep comeback in terms of the number of our on-site readers, eventually breaking all of our records to the extent that now for… [Read more…]

Afghanistan: The Imperial Occupation’s Own Dancing Boys

December 28, 2010 by

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A few months back, Jamil Hanifi and I coauthored a widely circulated critique of a slanderous piece of war propaganda put out by “journalist” Joel Brinkley, who relied in part on Anna Maria Cardinalli, a “social scientist” with the U.S. Army’s Human Terrain System (see “The ‘Dirty Secrets’ that Purify a Dirty War: A Colonial… [Read more…]

This Christmas Leaks

December 25, 2010 by

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Many thanks to John Postill for directing my attention to this video. But perhaps you don’t care for Christmas songs, not even satirical ones. Perhaps samba is more to your liking? Not samba? How about straight up rap (news)? This is one of Juice Media’s best, preceded by other great ones on Wikileaks, including this… [Read more…]

Anthropology, Secrecy, and Wikileaks

December 24, 2010 by

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[This is the third and final article in a series of three about Wikileaks. The first was “The Wikileaks Revolution” that led to a parallel article published in CounterPunch. The second one was "Wikileaks and the Moral Dualism of the U.S. State Department."] “I,______, in the Presence of the Mighty Ones, do of my own free… [Read more…]

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