It’s the 21st century and we’re still getting simplistic, cliched depictions of natives in Hollywood movies like Avatar. How is it possible that people are enthralled with this one-dimensional, sci-fi clunker? I succumbed to the hype last night, mainly because I wanted to see what a $260 million dollar movie looks like. Aside from the…Continue Reading…
I can understand why anthropologists have become a wee bit more defensive about their profession in recent years. But this reaction to a popular i-phone application over at Savage Minds strikes me as a clinical case of overcompensation: I just wonder how it is that Apple finds an application in which people can throw shoes…Continue Reading…
Is there a difference between non-military experts serving alongside combatant soldiers in a war and those that are part of a peacekeeping force in a war-torn country? I wondered about this today after reading about plans to add “green” advisors to U.N peacekeeping operations in countries where chronic instability is fueled by over-exploitation of the…Continue Reading…
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