In Harmonium

Being in the main the musings of a Symbolic Anthropologist

Rhetoric vs. Reality

Marc | April 23, 2008

This week there will be a conference on Anthropology and Counter-Insurgency taking place at the University of Chicago. Late last night, a friend of mine, Matt Armstrong, emailed me and asked me if I would be going – my response was (roughly) “No, why bother?”.
After I replied to Matt, my sub-conscious started trying to [...]