Working with Governmental Agencies

CHAIR: STEVENS JR., Phillips (SUNY-Buffalo)

ABSTRACT: This panel continues the conversation begun in Tampa, last year. The military interventions in rag and Afghanistan with their stated aims of regime change, and the
2007 employment of anthropologists alongside troops, raise many questions about social science involvement in governmental efforts in other cultures. How can we work
successfully with governmental agencies, and persuade them to consider our advice in their planning and in their field operations - and should we, if we disapprove of their plans
in the first place? How strong are memories of Project Camelot today? What are the ethical implications for our profession?

Session Participants:
NIBBS, Faith (S Methodist U)
FLUEHR-LOBBAN, Carolyn (Rhode Island Coll)
SELMESKI, Brian (Air Force Culture & Language Ctr, Air U)

Session took place in Memphis. TN at the 68th Annual Meetina of the Society for Applied Anthropologv in March 2008.