http://culturematters.wordpress.com/2008/05/30/to-wage-war-become-an-anthropologist/ Sun, 03 Jan 2010 11:11:25 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://culturematters.wordpress.com/2008/05/30/to-wage-war-become-an-anthropologist/#comment-4076 More Publications on Anthropology & Counterinsurgency « OPEN ANTHROPOLOGY Fri, 30 May 2008 08:23:02 +0000 http://culturematters.wordpress.com/?p=364#comment-4076 [...] lines like this one: “To wage war, become an anthropologist.” (First, let me thank Culture Matters for pointing me to an article which then pointed me to more.) The reason I say that is that I am [...] [...] lines like this one: “To wage war, become an anthropologist.” (First, let me thank Culture Matters for pointing me to an article which then pointed me to more.) The reason I say that is that I am [...]

]]> http://culturematters.wordpress.com/2008/05/30/to-wage-war-become-an-anthropologist/#comment-4074 anthro.pophago.us snippets of media, anthropology, design, culture and politics. Fri, 30 May 2008 03:55:36 +0000 http://culturematters.wordpress.com/?p=364#comment-4074 [...] “To wage war, become an anthropologist.” That’s the opening line from a 2007 article in the U.S. Army War College journal “Parameters.” The feature, by Oxford educated historian Patrick Porter, says, “from the academy to the Pentagon, fresh attention is being focused on knowing the enemy.” What Would Smedley Butler Do?: Why I Want to Teach Anthropology at the Army War College [via] [...] [...] “To wage war, become an anthropologist.” That’s the opening line from a 2007 article in the U.S. Army War College journal “Parameters.” The feature, by Oxford educated historian Patrick Porter, says, “from the academy to the Pentagon, fresh attention is being focused on knowing the enemy.” What Would Smedley Butler Do?: Why I Want to Teach Anthropology at the Army War College [via] [...]

]]> http://culturematters.wordpress.com/2008/05/30/to-wage-war-become-an-anthropologist/#comment-4073 Jovan Fri, 30 May 2008 03:50:02 +0000 http://culturematters.wordpress.com/?p=364#comment-4073 Thanks for posting this article Lisa. It is, of course, hilarious to imagine soldiers sitting down to discuss Marx and Gramsci -- to get an education that cuts through ideology and allows them to make an informed choice about what they are doing -- rather than the versions of "cultural competence" training that you can imagine the military would actually allow. Thanks for posting this article Lisa. It is, of course, hilarious to imagine soldiers sitting down to discuss Marx and Gramsci — to get an education that cuts through ideology and allows them to make an informed choice about what they are doing — rather than the versions of “cultural competence” training that you can imagine the military would actually allow.

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