Anthropological intelligence : the deployment and neglect of American anthropology in the Second World War / David H. Price.

Author/creator Price, David H., 1960-
Format Book
Publication InfoDurham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Descriptionxxii, 370 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Anthropology--United States. --History. --20th century.
Anthropologists--United States. --History. --20th century.
Military intelligence--United States. --History. --20th century.
Science and state--United States. --History. --20th century.
World War, 1939-1945--Participation, American.
United States--History. --1933-1945.

Contents American anthropology and the War to End All Wars -- Professional associations and the scope of American anthropology's wartime applications -- Allied and Axis anthropologies -- The war on campus -- American anthropologists join the wartime brain trust -- Anthropologists and White House war projects -- Internment fieldwork : anthropologists and the war relocation authority -- Anthropology and Nihonjinron at the Office of War Information -- Archaeology and J. Edgar Hoover's special intelligence service -- Culture at war : weaponizing anthropology at the OSS -- Postwar ambiguities : looking backward at the war.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [317]-352) and index.
LCCN 2007043856
ISBN9780822342199 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0822342197 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN9780822342373 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0822342375 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks GN 17.3.U6 P75 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold