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Minerva: DOD Hearts Anthropologists?

Started by washingtonindependent · 10 months ago

The Washington Post has a good piece today about the Pentagon’s new Minerva initiative. Minerva is an effort to bridge the gap between social science and national security — in this case, doling out grant money to anthropologists willing to work with the military. Unfortuna ... Continue reading »

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  • Controversial is an understatement. Anthropologists whole gig relies on their being able to gain full and unfettered access to societies/communities.. If it were to get out that anthropologists were working/supplying info to the military for military purposes, their whole fabric upon which their profession lays is dependent upon their being a benign, passive, neutral observer, is bust. That's not "theoretical", that's the basis for their profession.

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