Description: Critiques the Pentagon's Counterinsurgency Field Manual, which offered a blueprint for mobilizing the cultural expertise of anthropologists for the war in Iraq. Explores the ethical and intellectual conflicts of the Pentagon's Human Terrain System, and probes the increasing militarization of academic knowledge.
Brief description: Roberto J. González is associate professor of anthropology at San Jose State University. He is author of Zapotec Science: Farming and Food in the Northern Sierra of Oaxaca and editor of Anthropologists in the Public Sphere: Speaking Out on War, Peace, and American Power.
Review Quotes: "A timely, hard-hitting critique of Human Terrain Systems and the dangers of social science subservient to counterinsurgency."--Counterpunch-- "Counterpunch" (2/3/2009 12:00:00 AM)