Cold War Anthropology : The CIA, the Pentagon, and the Growth of Dual Use Anthropology /

In a wide-ranging and in-depth study of the recent history of anthropology, David Price offers a provocative account of the ways anthropology has been influenced by U.S. imperial projects around the world, and by CIA funding in particular. DUAL USE ANTHROPOLOGY is the third in Price's trilogy o...

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Main Author: Price, David H., 1960- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table of 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.