Comments on: Anthropologists don’t do anyone a favor by taking their ball and going home. http://www.ethnography.com/2007/10/127/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=127 A group blog on a wide variety of topics realted to anthropology Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:46:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Donna http://www.ethnography.com/2007/10/127/comment-page-1/#comment-85 Donna Wed, 17 Oct 2007 00:26:31 +0000 http://www.ethnography.com/2007/10/127/#comment-85 M. McFate and David Price were both interviewed on NPR again today, this time on "Here and Now." David made interesting points about how this is not about anthropologists helping the military think more anthropologically per se, but about the specifics of the HTS program. I'd like to know more about the HTS program, I think. The specifics are important. What is happening on the ground is crucial. The critique needs to be grounded in what is actually happening, and I don't know enough about it to do more than muse and wonder and speculate. Anthropology needs to be involved here. The specifics will require truly open discussion within the discipline, not name-calling and avoidance. M. McFate and David Price were both interviewed on NPR again today, this time on “Here and Now.”
David made interesting points about how this is not about anthropologists helping the military think more anthropologically per se, but about the specifics of the HTS program.

I’d like to know more about the HTS program, I think. The specifics are important. What is happening on the ground is crucial. The critique needs to be grounded in what is actually happening, and I don’t know enough about it to do more than muse and wonder and speculate.

Anthropology needs to be involved here. The specifics will require truly open discussion within the discipline, not name-calling and avoidance.

]]> By: Donna http://www.ethnography.com/2007/10/127/comment-page-1/#comment-81 Donna Mon, 15 Oct 2007 19:30:52 +0000 http://www.ethnography.com/2007/10/127/#comment-81 Arrgh. Thinking too much made me incoherent. That last 'graph should end with, "...the more anthropology as a whole can truly contribute to the broader political debate about the war. And maybe even help change the course of things to something more constructive than the status quo." NOW you can read it. Arrgh. Thinking too much made me incoherent. That last ‘graph should end with, “…the more anthropology as a whole can truly contribute to the broader political debate about the war. And maybe even help change the course of things to something more constructive than the status quo.”

NOW you can read it.

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