Marc | September 28, 2009
I have been following a series of posts by my friend Max Forte over at Openanthropology on his “relationship” with the Open Anthropology Co-operative (OAC). I won’t go into the details, they are all available on Max’s site, but the most recent one is extremely disturbing. There is, at least from the evidence Max provides, [...]
Marc | May 18, 2009
Over the past several months, I have been doing a lot of thinking about how people think. This has led me down some rather odd trails, but I thought I would toss out a few ideas and see what people think.
Marc | February 15, 2009
Well, Wired has picked up on the shift of the HTS from contractors at BAE to temp Gov’t employees. Noah’s article, ‘Human Terrain’ Contractors’ Pay Suddenly Slashed, doesn’t really have much more detail that John Stanton’s original post on the subject, although it does have a few new quotes, one of which echos a concern [...]
Marc | February 6, 2009
There are times when I get totally frustrated with computers. I had this post all ready to go with just some final edits to make on the 1st when my laptop died and I was stuck without a keyboard. I have been thinking a lot, lately, about how the map-territory paradox applies to cross-cultural (mis)communications. [...]
Marc | January 26, 2009
The past several days have seen more publications come out on the Human Terrain System. I want to focus in on one in particular that shows up, of all places (!), in Men’s Journal: Afghanistan: The New War for Hearts and Minds by Robert Young Pelton. The simplest way to describe Pelton’s article is as [...]
Marc | January 13, 2009
In the past couple of posts, I have been jotting notes, as it were, about how people view ways in which we, as a species, simulate our perceptions of objective reality and then pass on our understandings of how best to operate within these perceptions. All well and good but, in an age when we [...]
Marc | December 21, 2008
Daniel at Neuranthropology has launched a Best of Antropology blogging initiative. Personally, I think it is an excellent idea, and I really like Alexandre’s idea of creating an anthology of them.
Marc | December 17, 2008
The many woes of the HTS, at least the public casting and presentation of them, have been ably collated by my colleague Max Forte at Open Anthropology (e.g. here, here and here amongst many other places). What truly bothers me, in addition to Pravda being considered as a reputable publisher < rolleyes>, is that the [...]
Marc | November 18, 2008
For over a month, now I have been wresting with ideas about education, training and ethics. Last night, I received an email from a student asking me if we could have an extra class added into my course in applied epistemology so that everyone who is presenting could have more time for their presentations. In [...]
Marc | November 10, 2008
This past weekend, I was down in Kingston at the biennial IUS Canada conference presenting a paper on the use of ethnographic knowledge in Romano-Byzantine military PME (Professional Military Education) as part of a larger session on “Educating for Cultural Awareness” organized by John Hawkins. It was an interesting session in a lot of ways, [...]
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