Human Terrain System & Anthropology Discussed on Wisconsin Public Radio

Marcus Griffin, presently deployed to Iraq as an anthropologist with the ‘Human Terrain System,’ was a guest on a call-in radio show hosted by Kathleen Dunn on Wisconsin Public Radio yesterday. David Price was the guest for the second half of the one hour program. You can listen to the program here (Real Audio).

(UPDATE via Laura Sell @ Facebook: The Diane Rehm show hosted a similar discussion today with Montgomery McFate, David Price, Col. John Agoglia, Lt. Col. Edward Villacres, and David Rohde of the New York Times.)

Strong is Thomas Strong, lecturer in the department of anthropology at the National University of Ireland, Maynooth. He has previously held teaching and/or research posts at the University of Helsinki, the University of California, San Francisco, the University of Wisconsin, and (oddly enough) the American Academy of Ophthalmology. His publications include essays on the symbolism of blood and body in the U.S. and elsewhere, new cross-disciplinary work on kinship, and ideas of culture loss and bodily detumescence amongst the Dano-speakers of Papua New Guinea's eastern highlands province. His on-going research in PNG concerns transformations in sociality, gender relations, and personhood following the mid-twentieth-century repudiation of the traditional men's cult in the upper Asaro valley. His other interests include 'brand' as an ethnographic and analytic concept, HIV/AIDS (especially in the U.S. gay male community), and celebrity/fame.