In Harmonium

Being in the main the musings of a Symbolic Anthropologist

When politics becomes asymmetric, symbolic warfare

Marc | August 1, 2008

The personal is political
Carol Hanish (?)
I don’t usually write about politics. This isn’t because I don’t have strong political beliefs (I do) but, rather, because I prefer to devote my time and energies to other things. This wasn’t always the case, as a few of my close friends know, and I like to [...]

Untangling Ethics: A framework for Anthropology

Marc | July 14, 2008

In a recent blog post, Max Forte dissected the Human Terrain System’s (HTS) Top Misconceptions page. Now, in general, I have not been very kind about most of the attacks on the HTS and Max’s post is definitely an attack. It is, however, qualitatively different, in my opinion, from the majority of other [...]