Title: Anthropology at the dawn of the Cold War : the influence of foundations, McCarthyism, and the CIA /
Authors: Wax, Dustin M.; American Anthropological Association. 2003 :
Publisher: Pluto Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: McCarthy, Joseph, Relations with anthropologists Congresses.; Anthropology United States History Congresses.; Anthropologists United States History Congresses.; Anthropologists United States Political activity Congresses.; Anthropology Political aspects United States History Congresses.; Science and state United States History Congresses.
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.