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González's War Virtually expertly covers an incredible breadth of nuanced topics, from US policy on autonomous weapons to the Pentagon's relationship with Silicon Valley and the militarization of anthropology. Each chapter's subject warrants a book in its own right, but González has provided concise overviews that carefully navigate the zoo of defense contractors and their acronyms."—Jack Poulson, Co-founder and Executive Director of Tech Inqu...

A deeply researched reflection on the latest dark, hubristic dreams of a multitude of US planners using big data to wage war. González asks, 'What could go wrong?' And the answer, he discovers, is plenty."—Catherine Lutz, author of Homefront: A Military City and the American 20th Century "González is one of our foremost analysts, and critics, of military uses of social science. Here he breaks new ground in an account of the military's fusion o...

Move over Silicon Valley! Connected demonstrates beyond a doubt how indigenous innovation stretches from early Zapotec science to modern communications systems. And like the stories of Silicon Valley innovation, it is complex. Using the story of Talea de Castro’s adoption of an autonomous community-funded cell phone network that initially flourished and then tanked in competition with a commercial cell phone provider, González explores the con...

Move over Silicon Valley! Connected demonstrates beyond a doubt how indigenous innovation stretches from early Zapotec science to modern communications systems. And like the stories of Silicon Valley innovation, it is complex. Using the story of Talea de Castro’s adoption of an autonomous community-funded cell phone network that initially flourished and then tanked in competition with a commercial cell phone provider, González explores the con...

Roberto J. González is Professor of Anthropology at San Jose State University and author of Militarizing Culture: Essays on the Warfare State. Hugh Gusterson is Professor of International Affairs and Anthropology at George Washington University and author of Drone: Remote Control Warfare. Gustaaf Houtman is editor of Anthropology Today at the Royal Anthropological Institute, London.

Roberto J. González is Professor of Anthropology at San Jose State University and author of Militarizing Culture: Essays on the Warfare State. Hugh Gusterson is Professor of International Affairs and Anthropology at George Washington University and author of Drone: Remote Control Warfare. Gustaaf Houtman is editor of Anthropology Today at the Royal Anthropological Institute, London.

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The $60 million Human Terrain System (HTS), an intelligence gathering program that embeds social scientists with combat brigades in Iraq and Afghanistan, dramatically illustrates the approach. This pamphlet critiques HTS, showing how the history of anthropology can be used to illuminate the problems of turning 'culture' into a military tool.

Zapotec farmers in the northern sierra of Oaxaca, Mexico, are highly successful in providing their families with abundant, nutritious food in an ecologically sustainable fashion, although the premises that guide their agricultural practices would be considered erroneous by the standards of most agronomists and botanists in the United States and Europe. In this book, Roberto Gonzalez convincingly argues that in fact Zapotec agricultural and die...

Anthropologists have a long tradition of prescient diagnoses of world events. Possessing a knowledge of culture, society, and history not always shared by the media's talking heads, anthropologists have played a crucial role in educating the general reader on the public debates from World War I to the second Gulf War. This anthology collects over fifty commentaries by noted anthropologists such as Margaret Mead, Franz Boas, and Marshall Sahlin...