Anthropology Today
Published on behalf of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Edited by:
Gustaaf Houtman
Anthropology Today is a bimonthly publication which aims to provide a forum for the application of anthropological analysis to public and topical issues, while reflecting the breadth of interests within the discipline of anthropology. It is also committed to promoting debate at the interface between anthropology and areas of applied knowledge such as education, medicine, development etc. as well as that between anthropology and other academic disciplines. Anthropology Today encourages submissions on a wide range of topics, consistent with these aims. Anthropology Today is an international journal both in the scope of issues it covers and in the sources it draws from.
Message from the Editor, Gustaaf Houtman:
At Anthropology Today we are initiating 'virtual' issues that draw contributions from the past into conveniently accessible themed threads across issues. Papers are selected from the period 2000-present, based on the content available online. The virtual issues will hopefully help our readers navigate more easily.
What better first virtual issue than one grappling with the event that has changed the world most in recent years, namely the implications of 'the war on terror' in the wake of 11 September 2001. This issue contains a selection of past contributions - articles, editorials, narratives, letters, news items - that, taken together, reveal some of the dilemmas anthropologists face in navigating today's world, ranging across: the Pentagon Human Terrain initiative, the FM 3-24 Counter-Insurgency manual, MK-ULTRA and the issue of unwitting input by anthropologists into interrogation manuals (and hence torture), the issue of spying and ESRC-funded research into Counter-Radicalization programme, invention of terrorists in Algeria, Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholars Program (PRISP), spying, Islamophobia, lessons we may learn from WW II, and, generally, reactions to the wars that have been unleashed in the aftermath.
Click here to see the virtual issue.