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Anthropological Intelligence: The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War Hardcover - 2008

by David H. Price

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-352) and index.

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"David H. Price is, without any doubt, our foremost authority on the ways in which anthropologists were used in World War II and the Cold War and on the ways in which those wars changed anthropology. Price knows how to use the Freedom of Information Act like no other anthropologist, and he has succeeded in unearthing a wealth of fascinating information about the military uses of anthropology in World War II. "Anthropological Intelligence" is at once a fascinating and entertaining source of trivia on anthropology's ancestors and a keenly argued lament for what war has done to a humane discipline. Showing an encyclopedic command of the facts, Price writes with urbane elegance and a strikingly judicious compassion toward those whom he critiques. "Anthropological Intelligence" could not be more timely. At a moment when war is once more on anthropologists' minds, it will become the canonical book on anthropology and the 'good war' while raising troubling questions for those in the age of the 'war on terror' who would like, once more, to mobilize anthropology for war."--Hugh Gusterson, author of "People of the Bomb: Portraits of America's Nuclear Complex"

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  • Title Anthropological Intelligence: The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War
  • Author David H. Price
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Duke University Press
  • Date 2008-06
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780822342199 / 0822342197
  • Weight 1.55 lbs (0.70 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.51 x 6.48 x 1.15 in (24.16 x 16.46 x 2.92 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1940's
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - History - 1933-1945, World War, 1939-1945 - Participation,
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2007043856
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.097

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Citations

  • Chronicle of Higher Education, 08/15/2008, Page 16

About the author

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.

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