Cold War Anthropology: The CIA, the Pentagon, and the Growth of Dual Use Anthropology

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In Cold War Anthropology, David H. Price offers a provocative account of the profound influence that the American security state has had on the field of anthropology since the Second World War. Using a wealth of information unearthed in CIA, FBI, and military records, he maps out the intricate connections between academia and the intelligence community and the strategic use of anthropological research to further the goals of the American military complex. The rise of area studies programs, funded both openly and covertly by government agencies, encouraged anthropologists to produce work that had intellectual value within the field while also shaping global counterinsurgency and development programs that furthered America’s Cold War objectives. Ultimately, the moral issues raised by these activities prompted the American Anthropological Association to establish its first ethics code. Price concludes by comparing Cold War-era anthropology to the anthropological expertise deployed by the military in the post-9/11 era. Contents Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Part I: Cold War Political-Economic Disciplinary Formations One: Political Economy and History of American Cold War Intelligence Two: World War II’s Long Shadow Three: Rebooting Professional Anthropology in the Postwar World Four: After the Shooting War: Centers, Committees, Seminars, and Other Cold War Projects Five: Anthropologists and State: Aid, Debt, and Other Cold War Weapons of the Strong Intermezzo Part II: Anthropologists’ Articulations with the National Security State Six: Cold War Anthropologists at the CIA: Careers Confirmed and Suspected Seven: How CIA Funding Fronts Shaped Anthropological Research Eight: Unwitting CIA Anthropologist Collaborators: MK-Ultra, Human Ecology, and Buying a Piece of Anthropology Nine: Cold War Fieldwork within the Intelligence Universe Ten: Cold War Anthropological Counterinsurgency Dreams Eleven: The AAA Confronts Military and Intelligence Uses of Disciplinary Knowledge Twelve: Anthropologically Informed Counterinsurgency in Southeast Asia Thirteen: Anthropologists for Radical Political Action and Revolution within the AAA Fourteen: Untangling Open Secrets, Hidden Histories, Outrage Denied, and Recurrent Dual Use Themes Notes References Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P R S T U V W Y Z