Comments on: REDUX: What does Humanity look like? Ethnography of the CIA – with Carole McGranahan https://allegralaboratory.net/what-does-humanity-look-like-ethnography-of-the-cia-with-carole-mcgranahan/ Anthropology for Radical Optimism Thu, 05 Dec 2019 10:37:15 +0000 hourly 1 By: Carole McGranahan https://allegralaboratory.net/what-does-humanity-look-like-ethnography-of-the-cia-with-carole-mcgranahan/#comment-16636 Thu, 10 Jul 2014 16:25:47 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net//?p=5411#comment-16636 Hello all–this is ethnographic and historic research I’ve been doing since the late 1990s with retired CIA officers, combining fieldwork and “ethnography in the archives.” Some of it is already published in my book Arrested Histories: Tibet, the CIA, and Memories of a Forgotten War (https://www.dukeupress.edu/Arrested-Histories/index-viewby=author&lastname=McGranahan&firstname=Carole&middlename=&sort=newest&aID=712801.html), and I am currently continuing this research in relation to US empire. I am not working with currently active CIA officers so can’t answer questions about what permissions, etc. that might entail. Finally, an ethnography of spying is very different from ethnography as spying. My project is the former, but given the history of the discipline of anthropology, of times when anthropologists have been falsely thought to be spies, and times when anthropologists have been spies (or vice versa), this distinction is important.

]]> By: Allegra https://allegralaboratory.net/what-does-humanity-look-like-ethnography-of-the-cia-with-carole-mcgranahan/#comment-16625 Thu, 10 Jul 2014 16:03:39 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net//?p=5411#comment-16625 In reply to Kelly C..

Warm thanks for this comment – we will contact Carole McGranahan to discuss this!

]]> By: Kelly C. https://allegralaboratory.net/what-does-humanity-look-like-ethnography-of-the-cia-with-carole-mcgranahan/#comment-16615 Thu, 10 Jul 2014 13:41:20 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net//?p=5411#comment-16615 Many methodology questions about this research. Who is funding it? Did it receive IRB approval at her university? Have the interviews been approved with CIA (as required by the contracts of these CIA employees)? What guarantees were made to claimed CIA employees? How are claims verified? etc. Perhaps Prof. McGranahan could reply here?

]]> By: Dan https://allegralaboratory.net/what-does-humanity-look-like-ethnography-of-the-cia-with-carole-mcgranahan/#comment-16559 Thu, 10 Jul 2014 04:36:18 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net//?p=5411#comment-16559 In reply to Pat J.

Did you read the article at all? The person interviewed is studying the CIA. This has nothing to do with the CIA studying people. It seems like you literally just read the article title.

]]> By: Pat J https://allegralaboratory.net/what-does-humanity-look-like-ethnography-of-the-cia-with-carole-mcgranahan/#comment-16512 Wed, 09 Jul 2014 21:03:38 +0000 https://allegralaboratory.net//?p=5411#comment-16512 This is horrible. Spying on people isn’t ethnography, it is spying on people. Is this what anthropology had become, advertisements for the CIA?

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