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Anthropology by Savage Minds - A Self-Licking Ice Cream Cone

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Sun, 10/14/2007 - 6:01pm
Marshall Sahlins on Anthropologists in Iraq - "Open Letter to the NYT" at Savage Minds.

You decide - read the letter and all the self-righteous comments that follow. Seems these guys and gals believe anthropology as a social science exists for anthropologists' feel-good, feed at the public trough sake. Unbelievable, to say the least...

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Jaylemeux

Thu, 08/18/2011 - 1:44am

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I actually see quite a bit of back and forth in the comments as to the proper role of anthropology. The comments here are quite tame compared to the general tone of the "Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual," for which I believe Sahlins wrote the obnoxious foreword.