Cold War Anthropology
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8223-6125-1 (ISBN)
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.
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.
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
| Erscheinungsdatum | 05.03.2016 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 2 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | North Carolina |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 680 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8223-6125-6 / 0822361256 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8223-6125-1 / 9780822361251 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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