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A little more deserves to be noted about the current announcement by the American Anthropological Association’s plans to consider revising its code of ethics, a topic of importance given the extent to which that same code is used for teaching purposes even outside of the United States. Overall, I think that the suggested revisions are […]
Read More…Despite what initially seemed to be a flurry of protests against the involvement of anthropologists in the Pentagon’s Human Terrain System, and more recent criticisms of the Pentagon taking a very large lead in funding social science research that would be of relevance to “terrorism” and “national security,” there seems to be a quiet, professional […]
Read More…In “A Pentagon Olive Branch to Academe” in the April 16, 2008, issue of Inside Higher Ed, Scott Jaschik describes a proposal by Robert Gates, US Secretary of “Defense”, for expanded Pentagon research that includes the humanities and social sciences, in what is sure to be another installment of the growing military creep in universities. […]
Read More…An article by Scott Jaschik in the March 13, 2008, issue of Inside Higher Ed titled, “Defining a Ban on Secret Research“, indicates that the board of the American Anthropological Association (AAA) is finally moving closer to drafting a proposed ban on most “secret research” save for that which is kept secret to safeguard the […]
Read More…November 11, 2007 Dear Professor Shweder, The op-ed page of the New York Times is one of the loudest megaphones in American intellectual life. Those who are privileged to use it have an obligation to do so with care. Your recent op-ed (“A True Culture War“) contained serious omissions and mischaracterizations in its depiction of […]
Read More…I very much respect the work being done by academics in the Network of Concerned Anthropologists to oppose the alignment of anthropological expertise and counterinsurgency, and I particularly appreciate the articles written by David Price that appear in the bibliography on this blog. This is why I must now wonder if I am missing something […]
Read More…Before I continue, I wanted to counter any reader’s impression that the hidden aim of these posts is to somehow malign or criticize Shweder personally. I actually do not know him, we have never met, and what I recall that I might have read in the past certainly left me without a negative impression. I […]
Read More…In an Op-Ed titled, “A True Culture War,” in The New York Times, for Saturday, October 27, 2007, Richard A. Shweder made the following arguments: 1. That the pledge of the Network of Concerned Anthropologists, calling for an anthropological boycott of counterinsurgency support is understandable since, “these concerned scholars don’t want to make it easier for […]
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