The AES Board wishes to circulate the petition below from The
Network of Concerned Anthropologists for your review.
The Network of Concerned Anthropologists who are organizing the petition was
founded by our former AES President and board members along with other concerned
anthropologists. We hope that you will consider the petitiion seriously as the
issues are again becoming central to our professional integrity and the pursuit
of anthropological research.
These concerns will be raised at the AES Business meeting Thursday, November
29th from 6:15-7:30pm. We have invited Cathy Lutz and David Price to speak after
the AES Awards Ceremony. We hope to contribute to a lively and extensive general
discussion at the AAA Conference, Washington DC, November.
Yours sincerely,
Ida Susser
President
American Ethnological Society
AES Business Meeting Thursday 6:15-7:30pm November 29: Book Awards
Ceremony followed by Discussion of Concerned Anthropologists
(The AES Reception will be held Friday evening with SUNTA and SCA.)
Petition from the Network of Concerned Anthropologists
Dear AES members,
The Department of Defense and allied agencies are mobilizing anthropologists
for interventions in the Middle East and beyond. It is likely that larger,
more permanent initiatives are in the works.
Over the last several weeks, we have created an ad hoc group, the Network
of Concerned Anthropologists, with the objective of promoting an ethical anthropology.
Working together, we have drafted a pledge of non-participation in counter-insurgency,
which we have organized as a petition. We invite you to become
a part of this effort by taking the following steps:
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Download and print the pledge. Ask your colleagues
to sign the pledge, and promptly send it to us via regular mail. Our address
is Network of Concerned Anthropologists, c/o Dept. of Anthropology, George
Mason University, 4400 University Drive, MS 3G5, Fairfax, VA 22030 (USA).
If it is more convenient, email a .pdf copy of collected signatures and send
it to us at concerned.anthropologists@gmail.com.
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Forward this message to your colleagues, and encourage them to sign.
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Join our network by emailing us at concerned.anthropologists@gmail.com.
Be sure to include your name, title, and affiliation. We will add you to our
email list.
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Visit our web site at http://concerned.anthropologists.googlepages.com/home
for more information and updates.
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Email us at concerned.anthropologists@gmail.com if you would like more information
or if you have questions.
Sincerely yours,
Network of Concerned Anthropologists
Catherine Besteman
Andrew Bickford
Greg Feldman
Roberto Gonzalez
Hugh Gusterson
Gustaaf Houtman
Kanhong Lin
Catherine Lutz
David Price
David Vine
