Price Threatening Anthropology

McCarthyism and the FBI’s Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists
1. Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8568-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 446 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Price, David H.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Marxismus, Kommunismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
xvii

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.