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AAAO · 03-20-2008, 01:36 AM

Thanks for the brief. I studied History and Cultural Anthropology at UCSB, graduating in History as I ran out of cultural classes to take and was disinterested in "studying monkey bones." Down the road I was also FAO and CA, but that is another story. I approach the world as an Anthropologist. During a conference in CENTAM when I was serving as a military advisor in 1988, I remarked that what we were doing was "Applied Anthropolgy" -- studying behavior and then trying to modify it. That comment was not well received by those that were "bayonet-lug fundamentalists" (if it has a bayonet-lug it is worthy, if it doesn't it isn't). Nonetheless it was an accurate characterization and that is borne out by current practice in this field. We have gotten smarter recently, and I hope it sticks.

"You can always tell the CA Officer -- he is out working the crowd"

03-20-2008, 01:36 AM	#3 (permalink)
AAAO Regular Join Date: 03-06-08 Location: Costa Rica Posts: 56 Country:	Thanks for the brief. I studied History and Cultural Anthropology at UCSB, graduating in History as I ran out of cultural classes to take and was disinterested in "studying monkey bones." Down the road I was also FAO and CA, but that is another story. I approach the world as an Anthropologist. During a conference in CENTAM when I was serving as a military advisor in 1988, I remarked that what we were doing was "Applied Anthropolgy" -- studying behavior and then trying to modify it. That comment was not well received by those that were "bayonet-lug fundamentalists" (if it has a bayonet-lug it is worthy, if it doesn't it isn't). Nonetheless it was an accurate characterization and that is borne out by current practice in this field. We have gotten smarter recently, and I hope it sticks. "You can always tell the CA Officer -- he is out working the crowd"