An 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.
An 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.
David H. Price is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Saint Martin’s College in Lacey, Washington. He is the author of the Atlas of World Cultures: A Geographical Guide to Ethnographic Literature.
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Preface > 1 A Running Start at the Cold War: Time, Place, and Outcomes 1 2 Melville Jacobs, Albert Canwell, and the University of Washington Regents: A Message Sent 34 3 Syncopated Incompetence: The American Anthropological Association’s Reluctance to Protect Academic Freedom 50 4 Hoover’s Informer 70 5 Lessons Learned: Jacobs’s Fallout and Swadesh’s Troubles 90 6 Public Show Trials: Gene Weltfish and a Conspiracy of Silence 109 7 Bernhard Stern: “A Sense of Atrophy among Those Who Fear: 136 8 Persecuting Equality: The Travails of Jack Harris and Mary Shepardson 154 9 Estimating the FBI’s Means and Methods 169 10 Known Shades of Red: Marxist Anthropologists Who Escaped Public Show Trials 195 11 Red Diaper Babies, Suspect Agnates, Cognates, and Affines 225 12 Culture, Equality, Poverty, and Paranoia: The FBI, Oscar Lewis, and Margaret Mead 237 13 Crusading Liberals Advocating for Racial Justice: Philleo Nash and Ashley Montagu 263 14 The Suspicions of Internationalists 284 15 A Glimpse of Post-McCarthyism: FBI Surveillance and Consequences for Activism 306 16 Through a Fog Darkly: The Cold War’s Impact on Free Inquiry 341 Appendix: On Using the Freedom of Information Act 355 Notes 363 Bibliography 383 Index 405
Preface > 1 A Running Start at the Cold War: Time, Place, and Outcomes 1 2 Melville Jacobs, Albert Canwell, and the University of Washington Regents: A Message Sent 34 3 Syncopated Incompetence: The American Anthropological Association’s Reluctance to Protect Academic Freedom 50 4 Hoover’s Informer 70 5 Lessons Learned: Jacobs’s Fallout and Swadesh’s Troubles 90 6 Public Show Trials: Gene Weltfish and a Conspiracy of Silence 109 7 Bernhard Stern: “A Sense of Atrophy among Those Who Fear: 136 8 Persecuting Equality: The Travails of Jack Harris and Mary Shepardson 154 9 Estimating the FBI’s Means and Methods 169 10 Known Shades of Red: Marxist Anthropologists Who Escaped Public Show Trials 195 11 Red Diaper Babies, Suspect Agnates, Cognates, and Affines 225 12 Culture, Equality, Poverty, and Paranoia: The FBI, Oscar Lewis, and Margaret Mead 237 13 Crusading Liberals Advocating for Racial Justice: Philleo Nash and Ashley Montagu 263 14 The Suspicions of Internationalists 284 15 A Glimpse of Post-McCarthyism: FBI Surveillance and Consequences for Activism 306 16 Through a Fog Darkly: The Cold War’s Impact on Free Inquiry 341 Appendix: On Using the Freedom of Information Act 355 Notes 363 Bibliography 383 Index 405
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