David H Price

Threatening Anthropology

McCarthyism and the Fbi's Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists

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Produktbeschreibung

"David H. Price's painstaking account of political repression in anthropology after the Second World War is a unique contribution to the history of the field. More than that, it may foreshadow what some today may entertain. Let us hope not, but let us not be naive."--Dell Hymes, editor of "Reinventing Anthropology"

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9780822333388
• ISBN-10: 0822333384
• Artikelnr.: 21195692

Autorenporträt

David H. Price is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Saint Martin’s College in Lacey, Washington. He is the author of the Atlas of World Cultures: A Geographical Guide to Ethnographic Literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
> 1 A Running Start at the Cold War: Time, Place, and Outcomes 1
2 Melville Jacobs, Albert Canwell, and the University of Washington
Regents: A Message Sent 34
3 Syncopated Incompetence: The American Anthropological Association’s
Reluctance to Protect Academic Freedom 50
4 Hoover’s Informer 70
5 Lessons Learned: Jacobs’s Fallout and Swadesh’s Troubles 90
6 Public Show Trials: Gene Weltfish and a Conspiracy of Silence 109
7 Bernhard Stern: “A Sense of Atrophy among Those Who Fear: 136
8 Persecuting Equality: The Travails of Jack Harris and Mary Shepardson 154
9 Estimating the FBI’s Means and Methods 169
10 Known Shades of Red: Marxist Anthropologists Who Escaped Public Show
Trials 195
11 Red Diaper Babies, Suspect Agnates, Cognates, and Affines 225
12 Culture, Equality, Poverty, and Paranoia: The FBI, Oscar Lewis, and
Margaret Mead 237
13 Crusading Liberals Advocating for Racial Justice: Philleo Nash and
Ashley Montagu 263
14 The Suspicions of Internationalists 284
15 A Glimpse of Post-McCarthyism: FBI Surveillance and Consequences for
Activism 306
16 Through a Fog Darkly: The Cold War’s Impact on Free Inquiry 341
Appendix: On Using the Freedom of Information Act 355
Notes 363
Bibliography 383
Index 405