The CIA, Pentagon, and the Growth of Dual-Use Anthropology /
First Statement of Responsibility
David H. Price
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201604
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource (472 pages) :
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illustrations, charts, figures, tables
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
CONTENTS NOTE
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Cold War political-economic disciplinary formations -- Political economy and history of American Cold War intelligence -- World War II long shadow -- Rebooting professional anthropology in the postwar world -- After the shooting war: centers, committees, seminars, and other Cold War projects -- Anthropologists and state: aid, debt, and other Cold War weapons of the strong intermezzo -- Anthropologists' articulations with the National Security State -- Cold War anthropologists at the CIA: careers confirmed and suspected -- How CIA funding fronts shaped anthropological research -- Unwitting CIA anthropologist collaborators: MK-Ultra, human ecology, and buying a piece of anthropology -- Cold War fieldwork within the intelligence universe -- Cold War anthropological counterinsurgency dreams -- The AAA confronts military and intelligence uses of disciplinary knowledge -- Anthropologically informed counterinsurgency in Southeast Asia -- Anthropologists for radical political action and revolution within the AAA -- Untangling open secrets, hidden histories, outrage denied, and recurrent dual use themes
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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A thoroughly researched account of how the CIA influenced and employed anthropological research from the Cold War through Vietnam. This title was made Open Access by libraries from around the world through Knowledge Unlatched
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Title
Cold War Anthropology, The CIA, Pentagon, and the Growth of Dual-Use Anthropology
International Standard Book Number
9780822361060
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Cold War Anthropology, The CIA, Pentagon, and the Growth of Dual-Use Anthropology