annaleen

@annaleen@wandering.shop

I write science fiction and science nonfiction. Author: Stories Are Weapons, The Terraformers. Bylines: NYT, New Scientist, The Atlantic, etc. Pod: Our Opinions Are Correct. Professor: University of San Francisco Media Studies. I love noodles.

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annaleen, 4 hours ago to random

The United States has been using science and pseudo-science to wage psychological wars for centuries. Psywar as we know it in America grew up during the Indian Wars of the 19th century, where U.S. troops fought hundreds of Indigenous nations and confederated tribes, using battlefield anthropologists to gather information about the enemy. Read more in my latest @newscientist column, or check out my forthcoming book "Stories Are Weapons." https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg26234910-900-how-the-us-used-science-to-wage-psychological-war/

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annaleen, 1 hour ago

@sarae I mean, he worked with the military, using his knowledge to negotiate treaties with tribes -- he is precisely what I would call a battlefield anthropologist. His work was enabled in part by the Indian Wars, like many anthros on the west coast. He may have believed working with the military and various territorial governments was the only way he could get funding for his work, but it was still a choice that he made.

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