Threatening Anthropology

Threatening Anthropology
Author: David H. Price
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 454
Release: 2004-04-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780822333388

DIVAn archival history of governmental investigations of anthropologists in the 1950s, based on over 20,000 pages of documents obtained by the author under the Freedom of Information Act./div

Anthropological Intelligence

Anthropological Intelligence
Author: David H. Price
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 398
Release: 2008-06-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780822342373

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

Cold War Anthropology

Cold War Anthropology
Author: David H. Price
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2016-03-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0822374382

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.

Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency

Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency
Author: John D. Kelly
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 406
Release: 2010-04-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0226429954

Global events of the early twenty-first century have placed new stress on the relationship among anthropology, governance, and war. Facing prolonged insurgency, segments of the U.S. military have taken a new interest in anthropology, prompting intense ethical and scholarly debate. Inspired by these issues, the essays in Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency consider how anthropologists can, should, and do respond to military overtures, and they articulate anthropological perspectives on global war and power relations. This book investigates the shifting boundaries between military and civil state violence; perceptions and effects of American power around the globe; the history of counterinsurgency doctrine and practice; and debate over culture, knowledge, and conscience in counterinsurgency. These wide-ranging essays shed new light on the fraught world of Pax Americana and on the ethical and political dilemmas faced by anthropologists and military personnel alike when attempting to understand and intervene in our world.

Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead
Author: Nancy Lutkehaus
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 402
Release: 2008
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780691009414

Using photographs, films, television appearances, and materials from newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals, this text explores the ways in which Margaret Mead became an American cultural heroine.

In the Name of Humanity

In the Name of Humanity
Author: Ilana Feldman
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 390
Release: 2010-11-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0822348217

Collection of essays that consider how humanity--as a social, ethical, and political category--is produced through particular governing techniques and in turn gives rise to new forms of government.

Consequential Damages of Nuclear War

Consequential Damages of Nuclear War
Author: Barbara Rose Johnston
Publisher: Left Coast Press
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2008-07-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 1598743465

The hydrogen test-bomb Bravo, dropped on the Marshall Islands in 1954, was one of scores of cold-war nuclear tests that blanketed the nation with fallout. Johnston and Barker reveal the horrific history of human rights violations endured by the Marshallese, as well as their long struggle for reparations.

Weaponizing Anthropology

Weaponizing Anthropology
Author: David H. Price
Publisher: AK Press
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2011-08-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1849351090

The ongoing battle for hearts and minds in Iraq and Afghanistan is a military strategy inspired originally by efforts at domestic social control and counterinsurgency in the United States. Weaponizing Anthropology documents how anthropological knowledge and ethnographic methods are harnessed by military and intelligence agencies in post-9/11 America to placate hostile foreign populations. David H. Price outlines the ethical implications of appropriating this traditional academic discourse for use by embedded, militarized research teams. Price's inquiry into past relationships between anthropologists and the CIA, FBI, and Pentagon provides the historical base for this expose of the current abuses of anthropology by military and intelligence agencies. Weaponizing Anthropology explores the ways that recent shifts in funding sources for university students threaten academic freedom, as new secretive CIA-linked fellowship programs rapidly infiltrate American university campuses. Price examines the specific uses of anthropological knowledge in military doctrine that have appeared in a new generation of counterinsurgency manuals and paramilitary social science units like the Human Terrain Teams. David H. Price 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. He is a member of the Network of Concerned Anthropologists and teaches at St. Martin's College in Lacey, Washington.

A Possible Anthropology

A Possible Anthropology
Author: Anand Pandian
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-10-18
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781478003755

In a time of intense uncertainty, social strife, and ecological upheaval, what does it take to envision the world as it yet may be? The field of anthropology, Anand Pandian argues, has resources essential for this critical and imaginative task. Anthropology is no stranger to injustice and exploitation. Still, its methods can reveal unseen dimensions of the world at hand and radical experience as the seed of a humanity yet to come. A Possible Anthropology is an ethnography of anthropologists at work: canonical figures like Bronislaw Malinowski and Claude Lévi-Strauss, ethnographic storytellers like Zora Neale Hurston and Ursula K. Le Guin, contemporary scholars like Jane Guyer and Michael Jackson, and artists and indigenous activists inspired by the field. In their company, Pandian explores the moral and political horizons of anthropological inquiry, the creative and transformative potential of an experimental practice.