Anthropology at the dawn of the Cold War : the influence of foundations, McCarthyism, and the CIA /

Anthropology at the dawn of the Cold War : the influence of foundations, McCarthyism, and the CIA /

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Imprint:London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto Press, 2008.
Description:1 online resource (vi, 185 pages)
Language:English
Series:Anthropology, culture, and society
Anthropology, culture, and society.
Subject:
McCarthy, Joseph, -- 1908-1957 -- Relations with anthropologists.
McCarthy, Joseph, -- 1908-1957.
Anthropology -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Anthropologists -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Anthropologists -- Political activity -- United States.
Anthropology -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Science and state -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Anthropologists.
Anthropology.
Relations with anthropologists.
Science and state.
United States.
Electronic book.
History.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11283654
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Other authors / contributors:Wax, Dustin M.
ISBN:9781849643351
1849643350
9786611878740
6611878742
1435690737
9781435690738
9780745325873
0745325874
9780745325866
0745325866
128187874X
9781281878748
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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English.
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Summary:This book breaks new ground in the history of anthropology, opening up an explicit examination of anthropology in the Cold War era. With historical distance, Cold War anthropology has begun to emerge as a distinct field within the discipline. This book brings a number of different approaches to bear on the questions raised by anthropology's Cold War history. The contributors show how anthropologists became both tools and victims of the Cold War state during the rise of the United States in the post-War period. Examining the intersection between science and power, this book is a compelling read for anthropologists, historians, sociologists, and anyone interested in the way in which colonial and neo-colonial knowledge is produced and constructed.
Other form:Print version: Anthropology at the dawn of the Cold War. London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto Press, 2008 9780745325873
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Anthropology at the dawn of the Cold War / Dustin M. Wax
  • Ashley's ghost : McCarthyism, science, and human nature / Susan Sperling
  • Materialism's free pass : Karl Wittfogel, McCarthyism, and the "bureaucratization of guilt" / David H. Price
  • American colonialism at the dawn of the Cold War / Marc Pinkoski
  • In the name of science : the Cold War and the direction of scientific pursuits / Frank A. Salamone
  • Peasants on our minds : anthropology, the Cold War and the myth of peasant conservatism / Eric B. Ross
  • Organizing anthropology : Sol Tax and the professionalization of anthropology / Dustin M. Wax
  • Columbia University and the mundial upheaval society : a study in academic networking / William Peace
  • Afterword : Reconceptualizing anthropology's historiography / Robert L.A. Hancock.

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