Programs Like Human Terrain Systems Program and the Minerva Initiative

question 12

Multiple Choice

Programs like Human Terrain Systems Program and the Minerva Initiative offer funding to anthropologists whose work can benefit defense planning. Many in anthropology see this as a problem for the discipline. What do they find problematic?

• A) an excess of funding sources for a narrow range of interests
• B) the "weaponizing of anthropology"
• C) the "militarization of anthropology"
• D) recruitment of anthropologists as fighting soldiers

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