From: snitilicious at tampabay.rr.com
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That said, polling/ethnography/etc. etc. were and are used as ways to subjugate populations as part of a nationalizing process. It's a double-edged sword. But this isn't really news to anyone who has a healthy understanding of the history of the social sciences and their ambivalent relation to the state, imperializing or nationlizing (which are two parts of the same process....).
Kelley
^^^^ CB: Yes, radical anthropologists have noted self-critically that anthropology was the handmaiden of imperialism, probably still is .