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DESCRIPTION:\nThe\nDepartment of Anthropology Presents Dr. David Edwards fr
 om Williams College\, Department of Anthropology\n\n&nbsp\;\n\nHis\ntalk t
 itled Dances with Wolves\, An Afghan Sequel will be held on November 4\, 2
 014 from 4:00 – 5:00 pm in 204 Maxwell Hall\n\n&nbsp\;\n\nThis talk focuse
 s on former\nGreen Beret Major Jim Gant\, the so-called "Lawrence of Afgha
 nistan"\nand author of "One Tribe at a Time\," one of the most influential
  and\nwidely cited papers on counterinsurgency over the last decade\, and 
 a widely\npublicized&nbsp\;memoir\, American Spartan. Gant's vision of the
  Afghan\npeople and of his own role in countering the gains of the Taliban
  was filtered\nthrough a lens that came more from his own self-conception 
 and self-promotion\nas a modern-day Indian Fighter than from an understand
 ing of the dynamics of\ncontemporary Afghan society. This talk considers s
 ome of the ways in which the\nAmerican involvement in Afghanistan has been
  shaped by tropes appropriated from\nthe Cowboys\, Cavalry\, and Custer my
 thos of the American frontier\, as well as by\na failure at every level an
 d every stage to engage with Afghan society on its\nown terms.
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SUMMARY:Anthropology Speaker David Edwards
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X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p></p><p>\nThe\nDepartment of Anthropology Pr
 esents Dr. David Edwards from Williams College\, Department of Anthropolog
 y\n\n&nbsp\;</p><p>\n<br></p><p>\nHis\ntalk titled <i>Dances with Wolves\,
  An Afghan Sequel</i> will be held on November 4\, 2014 from 4:00 – 5:00 p
 m in 204 Maxwell Hall\n\n&nbsp\;\n</p><p><br></p><p>\nThis talk focuses on
  former\nGreen Beret Major Jim Gant\, the so-called "Lawrence of Afghanist
 an"\nand author of "One Tribe at a Time\," one of the most influential and
 \nwidely cited papers on counterinsurgency over the last decade\, and a wi
 dely\npublicized&nbsp\;memoir\, <i>American Spartan</i>. Gant's vision of 
 the Afghan\npeople and of his own role in countering the gains of the Tali
 ban was filtered\nthrough a lens that came more from his own self-concepti
 on and self-promotion\nas a modern-day Indian Fighter than from an underst
 anding of the dynamics of\ncontemporary Afghan society. This talk consider
 s some of the ways in which the\nAmerican involvement in Afghanistan has b
 een shaped by tropes appropriated from\nthe Cowboys\, Cavalry\, and Custer
  mythos of the American frontier\, as well as by\na failure at every level
  and every stage to engage with Afghan society on its\nown terms.</p><p></
 p>
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