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.
Author(s): David H. Price
Edition: e-book
Publisher: Duke University Press
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 488
City: Durham, NC / London
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Part I: Cold War Political-Economic Disciplinary Formations
One: Political Economy and History of American Cold War Intelligence
Two: World War II’s Long Shadow
Three: Rebooting Professional Anthropology in the Postwar World
Four: After the Shooting War: Centers, Committees, Seminars, and Other Cold War Projects
Five: Anthropologists and State: Aid, Debt, and Other Cold War Weapons of the Strong
Intermezzo
Part II: Anthropologists’ Articulations with the National Security State
Six: Cold War Anthropologists at the CIA: Careers Confirmed and Suspected
Seven: How CIA Funding Fronts Shaped Anthropological Research
Eight: Unwitting CIA Anthropologist Collaborators: MK-Ultra, Human Ecology, and Buying a Piece of Anthropology
Nine: Cold War Fieldwork within the Intelligence Universe
Ten: Cold War Anthropological Counterinsurgency Dreams
Eleven: The AAA Confronts Military and Intelligence Uses of Disciplinary Knowledge
Twelve: Anthropologically Informed Counterinsurgency in Southeast Asia
Thirteen: Anthropologists for Radical Political Action and Revolution within the AAA
Fourteen: Untangling Open Secrets, Hidden Histories, Outrage Denied, and Recurrent Dual Use Themes
Notes
References
Index
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