The Myth of Cultural Miscommunication - The Diigo Meta page

• 26 Jun 08
  

  Mark Walker

  COIN HTS anthropology Afghanistan

  • I find it hard to see how the expert opinion of anthropologists will be taken seriously in an organization which fires Arab experts simply because they are gay.
  • The point being that such miscommunication is treated as a cultural problem when it is really a problem of unequal power relations.
  • Treating the military’s lack of respect for local cultural knowledge as a cultural problem which can be solved by hiring anthropologists ignores the very real ways in which the military itself operates as a system for producing knowledge about the world, and the role of local knowledge in that system.

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