Browsing All posts tagged under »Margaret Mead«
U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM): Commemorating Columbus Day 2010
Readers will appreciate that a tremendous amount of historical research, and interviews with participants, went into this project to present the true history of the voyages of Christopher Columbus to Afghanistan, a history that thus far has been replete with misconceptions, unsubstantiated rumour, and popular myths. Clearly, Columbus and his brothers are to be celebrated […]
Fear and Loathing of Margaret Mead
September 22, 2010 by Maximilian Forte
To be perfectly frank, I am no fan of Margaret Mead. Had she been born a while later, she probably would have been the Senior Social Scientist at the Human Terrain System. I once heard a colleague describe her, in supposedly positive terms, as one of anthropology’s “war horses” –which seems all too true on […]
David Price: Anthropologists as Spies
October 15, 2007 by Maximilian Forte
The following is a selection of passages that I have marked out for special attention from David Price’s 2000 article in The Nation: On December 20, 1919, under the heading “Scientists as Spies,” The Nation published a letter by Franz Boas, the father of academic anthropology in America. Boas charged that four American anthropologists, whom […]
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October 12, 2010 by Maximilian Forte
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