Another article glossing over the significance of soft power for the easier-to-comprehend (and market) horrors (fascination?) of physical violence.
For those unfamiliar with HTS
Since 2007, the Pentagon’s Human Terrain System (HTS) has been placing social scientists in every Army combat brigade, regiment and Marine Corps regimental combat team. There are now more than 500 people employed [...]
Categories: anthropology
Tagged: anthropology, ethics, hts, war
This photo helps anchor Tristes Tropiques in reality for me. Hard to believe he’s nearing his 101st birthday. Thanks @kerim for this.
This beast of an intellectual is one of the few scholars who are responsible for blowing my mind all over the place with their theories of humanity. I still use his ideas on structural [...]
Categories: anthropology
Tagged: anthropology, levi-strauss
From a new Ad Age white paper, with projections on the 2010 Census:
“The concept of an ‘average American’ is gone, probably forever,” demographics expert Peter Francese writes in 2010 America, a new Ad Age white paper. “The average American has been replaced by a complex, multidimensional society that defies simplistic labeling.”
The message to marketers is [...]
Categories: anthropology
Tagged: anthropology, consumerism, economics, society, sociology, trends, usa