ZERO ANTHROPOLOGY

A Canadian anthropological approach to the study of empire and the human condition

A “Radical New Experiment” in “Anthropology”? What HTS is NOT

So some political scientist (David Kilcullen) decides to call his counterinsurgency work “conflict ethnography.” Do we take that at face value as ethnography? On what basis is the Human Terrain System “anthropology” as Grant McCracken celebrates it, bemoaning that anthropology is only ever really applied when it is applied in dominating other nations and murdering […]

Montgomery McFate: The New Heroine for a Collapsing Discipline (1.1)

[see “Me so horny, me love you long time”: The Phallo-Fascism of a Vainglorious Anthropologist in the Academilitary] …in a decaying hegemomic power, I might add. I just finished reading through one example of what will surely become a more visible, more audible set of apologia in anthropology for the work of the likes of […]