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Originally Posted by roachboy
does anyone know whether data like this is either produced or available, and if so where one might find it?
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I know of one undergrad anthropologist who managed to get herself into basic training and conduct her research on glory-based killing, or something along those lines. I watched her present at Santa Clara's anual soc/anth undergrad conference. Tasty stuff for a budding anth student. She's since traveled on to some school in England.
With the activation of basically entire small-towns into combat duty, we can hope that some of them were sociology/anthropology students. Hopefully their professors had the foresight to keep in contact and lead them through valid ethnographic data collection.
Officially, yet unobtainable I would imagine, would be psych evals. It will likely be a long while before their observations hit the journals, what say you, like 20 years given that the war won't even be simmering down for a decade? But if you could somehow tap those records early...that would be your treasure trove, roachboy.