Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 6th, 2009 Comments Off
The Human terrain system (HTS) was not as big an issue at this year’s AAA as it was in previous meetings. The issues has, it seems, been decided. Most anthropologists seem to agree that there are serious ethical issues involved with using anthropologists with military operations such as the HTS. From Franz Boas’ criticism of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 1st, 2009 Comments Off
This year the annual event of the American Anthropological Association will be held in Philadelphia. I’ll be tweeting from the meeting: you can find me at www.twitter.com/charlesmenzies. hashtag is #AAA09 Here’s my preliminary itinerary of the sessions that I am planning to check in on.
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 14th, 2009 Comments Off
Rachel Marsden, former SFU student, blazed into the fuzzy mascot debate with a decidedly untactful and provocative whine about poor white people being disrespected. John Semley provides a nice riposte to Marsden Over the past week or so, frothing conservative columnist Rachel Marsden has been carving out an editorial niche for herself criticizing (and criticizing, [...]
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