Anthropology at the dawn of the Cold War : the influence of foundations, McCarthyism, and the CIA /
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; Ann Arbor, MI :
Pluto Press,
2008.
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| Series: | Anthropology, culture, and society.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT CONNECT |
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.
