David H. Price

Broschiertes Buch

Cold War Anthropology

The CIA, the Pentagon, and the Growth of Dual Use Anthropology

Beschreibung

David H. Price uses information from CIA, FBI, and military records to map the connections between academia and the strategic use of anthropological research to further the goals of the U.S. military and outline the major influence the American security state has had on the field of anthropology.

Autor

David H. Price is Professor of Anthropology at Saint Martin’s University. He is the author of Threatening Anthropology: McCarthyism and the FBI’s Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists and Anthropological Intelligence: The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War , both also published by Duke University Press, and Weaponizing Anthropology: Social Science in Service of the Militarized State.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 486
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 704g
• ISBN-13: 9780822361251
• ISBN-10: 0822361256
• Artikelnr.: 43542442