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The beginning of this story, for me, was in the spring of 1969. I had applied for funding to do a cutting edge project combining methods and techniques of visual anthropology that I had learned from John Collier, Jr, my own version of cognitive anthropology arising out of the works of Edward Sapir and the […]
Read More…[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…Two Sides of the Same Coin Anthropology might look it came to us with a dual consciousness. On one side, a consciousness influenced by ideals of science and objectivity, driven to developing a commanding knowledge about human others. On the other side, a consciousness of itself as a creature of imperialism, guided by a scientific […]
Read More…Breaking down the White Light of Empire, This report starts at the big blue end of the spectrum: Afghanistan, Iraq, held low under the high water of 1492, By an oversized 227 year old man of war. A down swinging empire of rising fear, meets its boomerang, With the lies told abroad only believed at […]
Read More…One useful online resource, germane to some aspects of current discussions on anthropology and counterinsurgency, following from the previous post, is: Jorgensen, Joseph G., and Wolf, Eric R. (1970). Anthropology on the warpath in Thailand (a special supplement). The New York Review of Books, 15 (9), November 19. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/10763 In that article, which provoked lengthy […]
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