Anthropological Intelligence
The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War
1st Edition
Published on 9. June 2008
394 pages
978-0-8223-8912-5 (ISBN)
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Cultural history of anthropologists' involvement with U.S. intelligence agencies--as spies and informants--during World War II.
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Anthropological Intelligence
The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War
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06/2008
Duke University Press
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David H. Price
Anthropological Intelligence
The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War
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06/2008
Duke University Press
€120.50
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David H. Price is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Saint Martin's University in Lacey, Washington. He is the author of Threatening Anthropology: McCarthyism and the FBI's Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists, also published by Duke University Press. He was a member of the American Anthropological Association's 2006-7 Ad Hoc Commission on the Engagement of Anthropology with the U.S. Security and Intelligence Communities.
Content
Preface ix
Abbreviations xxi
1. American Anthropology and the War to End All Wars 1
2. Professional Associations and the Scope of American Anthropology's Wartime Applications 18
3. Allied and Axis Anthropologies 53
4. The War on Campus 74
5. American Anthropologists Join the Wartime Brain Trust 91
6. Anthropologists and White House War Projects 117
7. Internment Fieldwork: Anthropologists and the War Relocation Authority 143
8. Anthropology and Nihonjinron at the Office of War Information 171
9. Archaeology and J. Edgar Hoover's Special Intelligence Service 200
10. Culture at War: Weaponizing Anthropology at the OSS 220
11. Postwar Ambiguities: Looking Back at the War 262
Notes 283
Bibliography 317
Index 353
Abbreviations xxi
1. American Anthropology and the War to End All Wars 1
2. Professional Associations and the Scope of American Anthropology's Wartime Applications 18
3. Allied and Axis Anthropologies 53
4. The War on Campus 74
5. American Anthropologists Join the Wartime Brain Trust 91
6. Anthropologists and White House War Projects 117
7. Internment Fieldwork: Anthropologists and the War Relocation Authority 143
8. Anthropology and Nihonjinron at the Office of War Information 171
9. Archaeology and J. Edgar Hoover's Special Intelligence Service 200
10. Culture at War: Weaponizing Anthropology at the OSS 220
11. Postwar Ambiguities: Looking Back at the War 262
Notes 283
Bibliography 317
Index 353
