The Lily-Pad Strategy Check out David Vine’s groundbreaking piece at TomDispatch.com: "The Lily-Pad Strategy, How the Pentagon Is Quietly Transforming Its Overseas Base Empire and Creating a Dangerous New Way of War." Anthropologist David Vine,…
Conspiracies are U.S. : On Making Up Truthers, Birthers and Deathers, Part 2 This is Part 2 of a two part series by Prof. Joshua Reno on conspiracies in the U.S. You can read Part 1 here. In the August 2011 issue of American Ethnologist, I discuss how it is that evidence becomes inadmissible, stopping us from giving an…
Conspiracies are U.S. : On Making Up Truthers, Birthers and Deathers, Part 1 It is both disturbing and fascinating to follow the role of conspiracy theories in U.S. politics over the last decade and their apparent relationship to the Internet. One could claim that nothing has really changed, that mysterious and powerful…
On Anthropological Secrets The mission of Anthropology Now is to make anthropological knowledge accessible to lay readers, and in turn to enrich knowledge and debate in the public sphere. One may wonder why it is that such a mission is necessary, and frankly, I’ve asked…
