Price Anthropological Intelligence

The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8912-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 394 Seiten

Cultural history of anthropologists' involvement with U.S. intelligence agencies--as spies and informants--during World War II.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Price, David H.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Besondere Kriege und Kampagnen
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Abbreviations xxi

1. American Anthropology and the War to End All Wars 1

2. Professional Associations and the Scope of American Anthropology's Wartime Applications 18

3. Allied and Axis Anthropologies 53

4. The War on Campus 74

5. American Anthropologists Join the Wartime Brain Trust 91

6. Anthropologists and White House War Projects 117

7. Internment Fieldwork: Anthropologists and the War Relocation Authority 143

8. Anthropology and Nihonjinron at the Office of War Information 171

9. Archaeology and J. Edgar Hoover's Special Intelligence Service 200

10. Culture at War: Weaponizing Anthropology at the OSS 220

11. Postwar Ambiguities: Looking Back at the War 262

Notes 283

Bibliography 317

Index 353

Über Autor(innen)

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.