David Price at Counterpunch gives us more on the Human Terrain System Program Here.
HTS is a product of the  miscegenation of the private sector and the government  that corrupts science and generates delusion. Anthropologists are recruited to win the hearts and minds of the primitive peoples who are to be exploited. They are actually intelligence gatherers, or more succinctly, open spies. We explored this travesty earlier Here.

Having just seen Avatar, I am thinking it is probable, given the trend towards the privatization of space exploration,  that  Sigourney Weaver's character, Dr. Grace Augustine, will be replicated at some time in the future working for a company which will be the logical culmination of HTS under contract to an exploiting corporation. All pretense of the search for knowledge for its own sake will be shed; the corrupted anthropologists (or should we more accurately call them exologists by then?) will be gathering information for profit's sake.