Another Loopy Anthropologist

[jmm99]

Thought some very basic "know thy adversary" work might be interesting.

For what it is worth.


1. Some Basics

Brian McKenna, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Area of specialization: Medical Anthropology, Environmental Health, and Indians of North America
[minor personal data redacted]

Cancer Terrorists Unmasked
http://www.counterpunch.org/mckenna11212007.html

Native Resurgence Spurs Hope
http://www.counterpunch.org/mckenna11242006.html

We All Live in Poletown Now
http://www.ejmagazine.com/2006a/mckenna_extra.html

Brian McKenna, University of Michigan – Dearborn
Environmental Deception and the Battle against Pollution in Greater Lansing Michigan: Lessons from an Applied Anthropologist
http://www.umich.edu/~meldi/PDF/Summ...rch%20Cnfr.pdf

The New Terror
http://www.ejmagazine.com/2005b/05b_.../p_terror.html
Brian McKenna is a medical/environmental anthropologist who teaches at the University of Michigan - Dearborn. He teaches a number of courses there including, “Indians of North America,” and “Doing Anthropology.” He is currently working on a book titled, “We all Live in Company Town USA.”

US: Dow's Knowledge Factory (2004)
http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=10008
Brian McKenna is a health and environmental writer with a Ph.D. in anthropology. He has taught at Michigan State University and the University of Michigan. He resides in East Lansing.

How Green is Your Pediatrician? (2003)
http://www.homs.com/pdf/ftguaugsept2003.pdf
Brian McKenna is a medical anthropologist who worked in medical education at Michigan State
University for six years.

Conclusion: McKenna has no expertise to design a program in "military antropology".


2. Brief Comments

1. McKenna's agitprop script was very familiar (think leftist anti-war arguments vs. Vietnam War). Thought he might be a left over Weatherman who ended up in academia; but it seems he is of the second generation.

2. Some "logic" by Peter Rigby, who "was fond of saying, 'Men make revolutions. Anthropologists are men. Therefore anthropologists make revolutions.'" Hmm .. seems Rigby forgot the word "All" in the first sentence. I don't think Bertrand Russell would be proud of him, since Russell kept his mathematical integrity despite his political views.

3. LOL on McK teaching Marxist-Leninism. How to learn that:

- read Marx (what he said, not what others say he said)

- read Lenin (what he said, not what others say he said)

- listen to Radio Moscow & subscribe to Daily Worker (later Daily World).

That to me from an old communist (CPUSA member, lower level so probably not under Cheka's thumb, but who knows).

3. Appears the Master and Margarita was not on McK's reading list.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Master_and_Margarita

4. Have my own list of movies, but who cares ?