Unintended Open Source Ethnography For as much serendipity as conventional, on the ground, ethnography is known to entail, the “approach” discussed here is barely an approach at all: it was unprovoked, unplanned, without coordination, being neither methodical nor systematic. It became a collaboration, out of mutual interest, from distinct and separate positions, but there was… [Read more…]
August 10, 2010 by Maximilian Forte
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Note: Both Jamil Hanifi and myself agreed that we should reproduce this speech, as published in Cuba’s Granma Internacional, under the heading of “Reflections of Fidel Castro.” It was originally published on 03 August 2010. This is the equivalent of Fidel blogging, and the article ranges back and forth across a wide variety of topics.… [Read more…]
January 31, 2010 by Maximilian Forte
From the NETWORK OF CONCERNED ANTHROPOLOGISTS, 27 January 2010: Dear Fellow Anthropologists, The US Congress is currently evaluating and considering the expansion of the Pentagon’s Human Terrain System (HTS) program, in which anthropologists have been recruited to assist with counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan and Iraq [see here, here and here for more background]. Please join us… [Read more…]
December 29, 2009 by Maximilian Forte
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…]
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September 3, 2010 by Maximilian Forte
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