Comments on: Savage Minds Around the Web http://savageminds.org/2009/12/14/savage-minds-around-the-web-47/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:06:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Benjamin H. http://savageminds.org/2009/12/14/savage-minds-around-the-web-47/comment-page-1/#comment-626440 Benjamin H. Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:53:40 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=2938#comment-626440 Hi, Accoring to the official Humanterrain-website, the requirements of the "field social scientists" working for HTS are a "PhD in anthropology or related field such as international relations, sociology, political science, history, economics, public policy, social psychology, or area studies. An MA with extensive applied experience is also acceptable." The same goes for staff members working at the Research Reachback Center. The AAA's CEAUSSIG report ( http://www.aaanet.org/cmtes/commissions/CEAUSSIC/upload/CEAUSSIC_HTS_Final_Report.pdf ) tells us that in April 2009, of the 417 people working under HTS, six were anthropologists holding a PhD (of 49 PhD's altogether), another 5 had a Master’s-level degree in anthropology. See Chapter 4/page13 of the CEAUSSIG -report ("Brief Description of the Human Terrain System") for more information. Its quite probable that the number of employed anthropologists has risen since then. The above-quoted Time-article speaks of roughly 500 employees at the moment, meaning an increase of roughly 25 % of employees since April. This correlates with the blog of one HTS-employee, who speaks of around a dozen anthropologists stationed/living in Fort Leavenworth in September 2009, not counting those deployed in the field. Hi,

Accoring to the official Humanterrain-website, the requirements of the “field social scientists” working for HTS are a “PhD in anthropology or related field such as international relations, sociology, political science, history, economics, public policy, social psychology, or area studies. An MA with extensive applied experience is also acceptable.” The same goes for staff members working at the Research Reachback Center.

The AAA’s CEAUSSIG report ( http://www.aaanet.org/cmtes/commissions/CEAUSSIC/upload/CEAUSSIC_HTS_Final_Report.pdf ) tells us that in April 2009, of the 417 people working under HTS, six were anthropologists holding a PhD (of 49 PhD’s altogether), another 5 had a Master’s-level degree in anthropology. See Chapter 4/page13 of the CEAUSSIG -report (“Brief Description of the Human Terrain System”) for more information.
Its quite probable that the number of employed anthropologists has risen since then. The above-quoted Time-article speaks of roughly 500 employees at the moment, meaning an increase of roughly 25 % of employees since April. This correlates with the blog of one HTS-employee, who speaks of around a dozen anthropologists stationed/living in Fort Leavenworth in September 2009, not counting those deployed in the field.

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]]> By: Kate G. http://savageminds.org/2009/12/14/savage-minds-around-the-web-47/comment-page-1/#comment-626374 Kate G. Mon, 14 Dec 2009 19:37:09 +0000 http://savageminds.org/?p=2938#comment-626374 All of the articles I read about HTS talk generally about anthropologists embedded in Afghanistan (for instance, in the headlines), but I've seen only 2-3 clear references to anthropologists working in the program, including McFate. After the headlines, the discourse is of generic "social scientists." Does anyone know what the actual breakdown of types of "social scientists" working in HTS is? All of the articles I read about HTS talk generally about anthropologists embedded in Afghanistan (for instance, in the headlines), but I’ve seen only 2-3 clear references to anthropologists working in the program, including McFate. After the headlines, the discourse is of generic “social scientists.” Does anyone know what the actual breakdown of types of “social scientists” working in HTS is?

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