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| Title |
Anthropology in Uniform
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| Type of Resource |
still image
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| Date Created |
2009-05-14
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| Digital Origin |
born digtal
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| Rights Statement |
http://digital.uwyo.edu/copyright.htm
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| Keyword (topic) |
American Anthropological Association
Human Terrain Teams
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| Series Title |
Undergrauate Research Day 2009
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| Creator(s) |
Levi, Jamie
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| Contributor(s) |
Strauss, Dr. Sarah
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| Publisher |
University of Wyoming
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| Place of publication |
Laramie, Wyoming
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| Language |
eng
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| Summary |
In December of 2008 the American Anthropological Association took a vote and changed the code of ethics to which all anthropologists adhere. This change was sparked by the use of anthropologists and other social scientists in a project designed by the United States military, Human Terrain Teams. Each Human Terrain Team (HTT) consists of five members two of whom are social scientists while the other three are specially trained members of the U.S. military. Their goal is to gain the cultural and social knowledge of the people of Iraq and Afghanistan that military operations of the past, have ignored. As an anthropology student who has conducted ethnographic research with the Air Force ROTC on campus, I have the unique position of understanding more of the military world than my peers. This knowledge coupled with the experience of doing my own ethnographies, has allowed me to look at the HTT program and find it has been poorly executed. While the military should understand more about the area and the people with which they are fighting, there was not enough research done within the anthropological community to ensure that the military program ideas would connect with what anthropological ethic would allow.
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| Notes |
From - Undergraduate Research Day 2009 - Celebration of Research - Abstracts
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