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Cold War anthropology : the CIA, the Pentagon, and the growth of dual use anthropology / David H. Price.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Price, David H., 1960- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
- United States.
- Anthropology--Political aspects--United States--History--20th century.
- Anthropology.
- Anthropologists--Political activity--United States--History--20th century.
- Anthropologists.
- Military intelligence--United States--History--20th century.
- Military intelligence.
- Science and state--United States--History--20th century.
- Science and state.
- Cold War.
- United States--History--1945-.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxxi, 452 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- David H. Price uses information from CIA, FBI, and military records to map the connections between academia and the strategic use of anthropological research to further the goals of the U.S. military and outline the major influence the American security state has had on the field of anthropology.
- Contents:
- Cold War political-economic disciplinary formations
- Political economy and history of American Cold War intelligence
- World War II long shadow
- Rebooting professional anthropology in the postwar world
- After the shooting war: centers, committees, seminars, and other Cold War projects
- Anthropologists and state: aid, debt, and other Cold War weapons of the strong intermezzo
- Anthropologists' articulations with the National Security State
- Cold War anthropologists at the CIA: careers confirmed and suspected
- How CIA funding fronts shaped anthropological research
- Unwitting CIA anthropologist collaborators: MK-Ultra, human ecology, and buying a piece of anthropology
- Cold War fieldwork within the intelligence universe
- Cold War anthropological counterinsurgency dreams
- The AAA confronts military and intelligence uses of disciplinary knowledge
- Anthropologically informed counterinsurgency in Southeast Asia
- Anthropologists for radical political action and revolution within the AAA
- Untangling open secrets, hidden histories, outrage denied, and recurrent dual use themes.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822374381
- 0822374382
- 9781478091202
- OCLC:
- 917359212
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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