Quote Originally Posted by Rex Brynen View Post
Wilf, I think its fair to say in theory that anthropologists who have spent a dozen full-time years of graduate and post-graduate work on (say) kinship relations or local customary law, who have been through considerable training in research methodology, and who may have spent considerable time living and working among local populations, might know a thing or two about how local social dynamics work out on the ground that others aren't likely to pick up.
...but where would that not be true? Does the LAPD gang unit use Anthropologists in LA to understand the dynamics of local gangs in relation to immigrant communities? Maybe it should, but that does not make the case for having civilian scientist acting as part of your formation ISTAR capability. On that I think we are agreed.