Marc | February 25, 2007
I recently became aware of a fascinating post on the TrueSpeak Institute’s web site entitled Irhabi Murderdom not Jihadi Martyrdom. The author, Jim Guirard, quite rightly points out that within Islam the concept of “terrorist” Irhab not only exists, but is related to he concept of “unholy war” (Haribah). And yet, as he notes, this [...]
Marc | February 14, 2007
I just published an article in the Small Wars Journal examining the roots of the current “difficulties” between Anthropology and the “military” (broadly construed). This spawned a couple of comments in the Social Sciences forum at SWC, including a discussion of academic ethics. Academic ethics has been a bug-a-boo of mine for a number of [...]
Marc | February 2, 2007
A couple of weeks ago, I was asked by a friend of mine, Jim Cheetham, to come into his class on Biotechnology and Society and talk about agricultural biotechnology from an Anthropologist viewpoint. Jim will talk for a while on the modern technology and I’ll be talking about the ancient versions – and about their [...]
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