This and the previous post feature two chapters by Brian Ferguson dealing with the U.S. Army’s Human Terrain System, and broader issues of militarization, global surveillance, and cultural counterinsurgency that arise. One of the chapters was nearing publication, but the very sad passing of our friend and colleague, Neil L. Whitehead, this past March has […]
May 22, 2009 by Maximilian Forte
The following is a copy of the paper I delivered at the CASCA-AES conference in Vancouver on Friday, 15 May, 2009, for a panel organized and chaired by Dr. Greg Feldman titled, “The Use of Culture and Anthropology in Counter-insurgency and Peacekeeping Operations.” The audio copy of this paper may contain minor discrepancies compared with […]
May 22, 2009 by Maximilian Forte
At the University of British Columbia in Vancouver last Saturday morning (16 May 2009) more than two dozen individuals gathered within the setting of the joint conference of the Canadian Anthropology Society (CASCA) and the American Ethnological Society (AES), for an “open session” titled, “Canadian Responses to the Militarization of Anthropology,” which followed from the […]
April 24, 2009 by Maximilian Forte
The following article by John Stanton, his 16th on the Human Terrain System, was sent to me by John with permission to reproduce it here. John Stanton’s earlier articles on the Human Terrain System are also available here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15. This […]
February 14, 2008 by Maximilian Forte
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Following from yesterday’s post on open access publishing in anthropology, and thanks in part to discussions presented on the antropologi.info blog, I wanted to post some continuing news and discussion, ending with what may be perceived as an outrageous proposal of my own. To start, an article published inInside Higher Ed on 13 February, 2008, […]
December 7, 2012 by Maximilian Forte
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