ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Human Terrain System, David Petraeus, Richard Dawkins
5 Dec 2016
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Lone gunman shot journalists and editors at a secularists and popular french magazine. In france, people are resisting french notions of french secularism. The government had decided to ban religious symbols in government institutions (schools, banks etc. ) Creates a problem because secularism is associated with thinking about religion as backward and primitive. Magazines take this perspective - portrayed mohammad and as a result are picking on this religion. This book became a best seller, and he was put forth as a progressive thinker. From the perspective of those that are devoutly religious his book was banned. Are revitalization movements perceived crisis of existing order, emergence of charismatic leader, desire for territorialization, revitalization of ancient ways . The decisive terrain is the human terrain, not the high ground or river crossing. One anthropologist is worth a b2 bomber. Had decided they needed new ways of warfare- since vietnam there has been a deterritorialization of war.
