Anthropological intelligence : the deployment and neglect of American anthropology in the Second World War / David H. Price.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Price, David H., 1960-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology--United States--History--20th century.

Anthropology.

Anthropologists--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.

World War, 1939-1945--Participation, American.

World War, 1939-1945.

United States--History--1933-1945.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (395 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Cultural history of anthropologists' involvement with U.S. intelligence agencies--as spies and informants--during World War II.

Contents:

American anthropology and the War to End All Wars

Professional associations and the scope of American anthropology's wartime applications

Allied and Axis anthropologies

The war on campus

American anthropologists join the wartime brain trust

Anthropologists and White House war projects

Internment fieldwork : anthropologists and the war relocation authority

Anthropology and Nihonjinron at the office of War Information

Archaeology and J. Edgar Hoover's special intelligence service

Culture at war : weaponizing anthropology at the OSS

Postwar ambiguities : looking backward at the war.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)

ISBN:

9780822389125

0822389126

OCLC:

850220870