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Daniel Elliott

Human Terrain System and the Minerva Project? - 4 views

How about some good links to articles, blogs, etc. focused on the Pentagon's Project Minerva and/or M. McFate's HTS project in Iraq..

started by Daniel Elliott on 11 Dec 08 no follow-up yet
The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy

When Size Matters: Genital Retraction Syndromes in Cultural Perspective - 1 views

www.focusanthro.org/...schroer0506.pdf

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shared by The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy on 01 Apr 09 - No Cached
  • The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy on 01 Apr 09
     
    WARNING: The page ahead is in .pdf format, and may cause problems for those who don't have adobe uploaded on their systems, or those using older browsers. In Senegal and the Congo, rioting have already occured over this - allegations that strangers (sometimes foreigners) have stolen the penises of the men that they've shaken hands with or merely touched. It's witchcraft, you know. It would almost be funny, if nobody had been hurt, but some of the accused witches have been killed. This is a paper I found linked to about the phenomenon. See link above, on my bookmark list. Note the non-.edu address. I can't vouch for the credentials of the authors, so read this one with guarded skepticism. That having been said, Reuters has reported these incidents - this is not an urban legend.
Daniel Elliott

Althusserian Ideology - 1 views

froberto.dnsalias.org/...theory_before_althusser.html

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shared by Daniel Elliott on 27 Nov 08 - Cached
  • With the rise of industrialization, urbanization, mass culture and public institutions, intellectuals began to consider the influence of these phenomena in shaping the individual personality, and the recognition that identity is socially dependent gained acceptance.
  • Many of these thinkers study the concept of subjectivity or the belief that identity is socially constructed and that it is formed in relation to dominant beliefs, values and norms known as ideology.
  • Althusser was the first cultural theorist concerned with ideology to put the subject at the center of his research (Chandler 181).
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  • Regardless of our willingness to take on these subject positions, Althusser maintained that we are unaware of the extent to which they determine our thoughts, behaviour and relations to others (Smith 54).
Daniel Elliott

Failure in the field : Article : Nature - 0 views

www.nature.com/...456676a.html

HTS anthropology iraq DoD McFate

shared by Daniel Elliott on 12 Dec 08 - Cached
  • The immediate problems with the Human Terrain System can be traced to BAE Systems, the military contractor based in Rockville, Maryland, that screens potential employees
The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy

Stranded Ghana International Airlines Passengers Avoid Penis Theft Panic Back... - 0 views

barbadosfreepress.wordpress.com/...ngs-of-penis-thieves-shrinkers

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shared by The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy on 01 Apr 09 - Cached
  • The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy on 01 Apr 09
     
    Mostly gentle sniping can be found in the comments section of the blog post where I found the link to the article in the bookmark below on my profile, one which briefly answers the question "what was all of that about".
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