I give examples of such involvement relevant to both World Wars, as well as to the Cold War. I show the ways in which anthropologists were used in military and intelligence operations. I consider how the engagement in those wars changed anthropology itself and its...
sometimes called “yarns”or even more clearly, “lies”—it is a settler colonial North American spin on narrative conventions surely influenced by all of the Irish people who participated in the European occupation of these lands. There is more than “a bit of the Blarney” involved ...
And public debate has in large part focused on the new circumstances of privacy (or the lack thereof), clandestine data collection, and the ethics of new largely internet-based and social media-derived means used by intelligence agencies to amass colossal troves of information while mining people...