As posted earlier, the CIA is sponsering anthropologists to gather sensitive information during their fieldwork.
The Kansas City Star provides more detailes about the spies on the campus. Among others, they interviewed Carolyn Fluehr-Lobban, who leads… more »
Categories: "anthropology (general)"
by lorenz on Jun 3, 2005 in politics, applied anthropology, fieldwork / methods, Northern America, ethics • 1 comment »
"A CIA scheme to sponsor trainee spies secretly through US university courses has caused anger among UK academics, the BBC reports. The Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholars Program pays anthropology students up to $50,000 (£27,500) a year. They are expected… more »
Jason Godesky, The Anthropik Network
The final for my very first anthropology class included an essay question, asking what made humans unique from the rest of the animal kingdom. We are unique in many ways. That uniqueness, however, does not go nearl… more »
by lorenz on May 30, 2005 in technology, development empowerment, applied anthropology, fieldwork / methods, journal articles / papers
New methods in the anthropology of science and technology is the topic of the new issue of the anthropology online journal "Anthropology Matters" that was published these days. The papers developed out of a panel at the Association of Social Anthropologi… more »
Morocco Times
Prologues, the North African review of books, chose to dedicate its winter issue to anthropology in North Africa. Coordinated by anthropologist Hassan Rachik, this number focuses on the evolution of this discipline in both North Africa a… more »
Some days ago, anthropologist Kerim Friedman wrote about Armchair Anthropology in the Cyber Age?: "I predict that we will slowly see the return of the “armchair anthropologists” Malinowski so famously dethroned." The reason: "The web offers a tremendous,… more »
Ethno::log
The zoo of Augsburg/Germany is planning to open a "African village" with people from Africa "situated in an unique African steppe landscape", critically reports Norbert Finzsch in an email, professor of History at the University of Cologne.… more »
The Globe and Mail
Cultural lag is the term first coined by anthropologists to describe the gap between an invention and society's ability to actually use it. It took about 50 years for the typewriter to displace the pen. When electricity first came t… more »
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