Cold War Anthropology
Title | Cold War Anthropology PDF eBook |
Author | David H. Price |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
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 at the Dawn of the Cold War
Title | Anthropology at the Dawn of the Cold War PDF eBook |
Author | Dustin M. Wax |
Publisher | Pluto Press (UK) |
Pages | 200 |
Release | 2008-01-20 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Examines the influence of McCarthyism and the CIA on anthropology in the cold war era.
Anthropological Intelligence
Title | Anthropological Intelligence PDF eBook |
Author | David H. Price |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
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
Threatening Anthropology
Title | Threatening Anthropology PDF eBook |
Author | David H. Price |
Publisher | Duke University Press |
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
The Other Cold War
Title | The Other Cold War PDF eBook |
Author | Heonik Kwon |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 234 |
Release | 2010-12-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0231526709 |
In this conceptually bold project, Heonik Kwon uses anthropology to interrogate the cold war's cultural and historical narratives. Adopting a truly panoramic view of local politics and international events, he challenges the notion that the cold war was a global struggle fought uniformly around the world and that the end of the war marked a radical, universal rupture in modern history. Incorporating comparative ethnographic study into a thorough analysis of the period, Kwon upends cherished ideas about the global and their hold on contemporary social science. His narrative describes the slow decomposition of a complex social and political order involving a number of local and culturally creative processes. While the nations of Europe and North America experienced the cold war as a time of "long peace," postcolonial nations entered a different reality altogether, characterized by vicious civil wars and other exceptional forms of violence. Arguing that these events should be integrated into any account of the era, Kwon captures the first sociocultural portrait of the cold war in all its subtlety and diversity.
Cold War Anthropology
Title | Cold War Anthropology PDF eBook |
Author | David H. Price |
Publisher | |
Pages | 452 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Anthropologists |
ISBN |
Cold War Social Science
Title | Cold War Social Science PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Solovey |
Publisher | Springer Nature |
Pages | 413 |
Release | 2021-05-13 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 3030702464 |
This book explores how the social sciences became entangled with the global Cold War. While duly recognizing the realities of nation states, national power, and national aspirations, the studies gathered here open up new lines of transnational investigation. Considering developments in a wide array of fields – anthropology, development studies, economics, education, political science, psychology, science studies, and sociology – that involved the movement of people, projects, funding, and ideas across diverse national contexts, this volume pushes scholars to rethink certain fundamental points about how we should understand – and thus how we should study – Cold War social science itself.