Anthropologists have taken their arguments about cooperating with the U.S. military to the public-radio airwaves.

Yesterday’s edition of Kathleen Dunn’s program on Wisconsin Public Radio featured an exchange between Marcus B. Griffin, an anthropologist at Christopher Newport University who is presently serving on a military “human terrain team” in Iraq, and David Price, an anthropologist at St. Martin’s University who has written extensively (and critically) about social scientists’ past relationships with national security agencies.

And this morning’s broadcast of The Diane Rehm Show involved a similar discussion, with Price once again joining the fray.

Human terrain teams in Afghanistan have recently received extensive coverage in The Boston Globe and The New York Times.

Felix Moos, a Kansas anthropologist who has trained the human terrain teams at Fort Leavenworth, was grilled by Chronicle readers in an online colloquy in 2005.

(Photo: U.S. soldiers attending an Afghan Independence Day ceremony, by Flickr user soldiersmediacenter.)