Price David H. Price

Cold War Anthropology (eBook, PDF)

The CIA, the Pentagon, and the Growth of Dual Use Anthropology

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Produktbeschreibung

In Cold War Anthropology, David H. Price offers a provocative account of the profound influence that the American security state has had on the field of anthropology since the Second World War. Using a wealth of information unearthed in CIA, FBI, and military records, he maps out the intricate connections between academia and the intelligence community and the strategic use of anthropological research to further the goals of the American military complex. The rise of area studies programs, funded both openly and covertly by government agencies, encouraged anthropologists to produce work that had intellectual value within the field while also shaping global counterinsurgency and development programs that furthered America's Cold War objectives. Ultimately, the moral issues raised by these activities prompted the American Anthropological Association to establish its first ethics code. Price concludes by comparing Cold War-era anthropology to the anthropological expertise deployed by the military in the post-9/11 era.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 472
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822374381
• Artikelnr.: 54795654

Autorenporträt

David H. Price is Professor of Anthropology at Saint Martin’s University. He is the author of Threatening Anthropology: McCarthyism and the FBI’s Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists and Anthropological Intelligence: The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War , both also published by Duke University Press, and Weaponizing Anthropology: Social Science in Service of the Militarized State.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface  xi
Acknowledgments  xxv
Abbreviations  xxix
Part I. Cold War Political-Economic Disciplinary Formations
1. Political Economy and History of American Cold War Intelligence  3
2. World War II's Long Shadow  31
3. Rebooting Professional Anthropology in the Postwar World  54
4. After the Shooting War: Centers, Committees, Seminars, and Other Cold
War Projects  81
5. Anthropologists and State: Aid, Debt, and Other Cold War Weapons of the
Strong  109
Intermezzo  137
Part II. Anthropologists' Articulations with the National Security State
6. Cold War Anthropologists at the CIA: Careers Confirmed and Suspected 
143
7. How CIA Funding Fronts Shaped Anthropological Research  165
8. Unwitting CIA Anthropologist Collaborators: MK-Ultra, Human Ecology, and
Buying a Piece of Anthropology  195
9. Cold War Fieldwork within the Intelligence Universe  221
10. Cold War Anthropological Counterinsurgency Dreams  248
11. The AAA Confronts Military and Intelligence Uses of Disciplinary
Knowledge  276
12. Anthropologically Informed Counterinsurgency in Southeast Asia  301
13. Anthropologists for Radical Political Action and Revolution within the
AAA  323
14. Untangling Open Secrets, Hidden Histories, Outrage Denied, and
Recurrent Dual Use Themes  349
Notes  371
Bibliography  397
Index  433