ANTHROP 3PD3 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Human Terrain System, Hypersexuality, High Tech
11 Apr 2018
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Discuss, with reference to relevant readings, the ethical implications of the human. Announced 2007, disbanded 2015; 27 teams deployed (26 in iraq, 6 in afghanistan); 2 social scientists and 3 military personnel; social scientists in uniform, some armed; research centers in us, 4 social scientists killed. Increase cross-cultural understanding, discern needs of ordinary afghans/iraqis, reduce kinetic force. Program overwhelmingly rejected by anthropologists; media have almost entirely ignored this aspect of the story. Not surprisingly, it has been the activities of htts that have generated the most controversy among anthropologists in the us. Htts are teams composed of both military and social science personnel embedded with us military units in the field in iraq and. These teams employ rapid appraisal-type ethnographic techniques to address a deficit of socio-cultural knowledge" on the part of army and marine field commanders. This knowledge, in turn, is intended to help improve decision-making by commanders on the ground so as to avoid potential kinetic" engagements.
