david barkin wrote: > I am not surprised about the report about the use of > US anthropologists in the NY Times, but rather by the > extraordinary lapses of memory by the profession, > wreaked by an intense debate involving their members > in the infamous Project Camelot.
When I was taking frosh anthropology at Yale 1970 or 1971, the prof, J.V. Murra (reputed to be a leftist) assigned a book, titled (I believe) "Life in the Barrio." It was a an example of "applied anthropology" (for either Venezuela or Colombia), in which anthro-tools were applied to tell the government how to control the barrio. -- Jim Devine / "The truth is at once less sinister and more dangerous." -- Naomi Klein.
