In Harmonium

Being in the main the musings of a Symbolic Anthropologist

What is “harm”?

| September 30, 2008

One of the nice things about being a pessimistic romantic is that one can still have a sense of wonder about everyday things.  That sense of wonder kicked in again today upon reading a very nice, plain English exposition by Cobalt on why Anthropologists working with the US military can be unethical (actual, “a dick”; [...]

The Night Battles in the 21st century

| August 19, 2008

For over a year, I have been using the term “Witch Hunts”to refer to the actions of some people who are violently opposed to the existence on the Human Terrain System. It is important that people realize that when I use that term, it is not being used in the normal meaning of political hyperbole [...]

When politics becomes asymmetric, symbolic warfare

| 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 [...]