This has been the first week of the semester for me, which has taken most of my attention, but I thought I would throw up a few notes about threads that we’ve covered on the blog that might be helpful:

Harpers has “an article on Human Terrain Teams in Afghanistan”:http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/09/0082170

And Science has an article on “Pre-Columbian Urbanism in Amazonia”:http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/321/5893/1214, suggesting that all those ‘uncontacted tribes’ have a long history which includes a sort urbanism and level of regional organization that stereotypes of people wandering in the jungle do not do justice to.

More soon.