Anthropological intelligence
Subtitle: the deployment and neglect of American anthropology in the Second World War
By: David H. Price.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9780822342199; 9780822342373
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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-352) and index.
Table of contents: title: American anthropology and the War to End All Wars; title: Professional associations and the scope of American anthropology's wartime applications; title: Allied and Axis anthropologies; title: The war on campus; title: American anthropologists join the wartime brain trust; title: Anthropologists and White House war projects; title: Internment fieldwork : anthropologists and the war relocation authority; title: Anthropology and Nihonjinron at the Office of War Information; title: Archaeology and J. Edgar Hoover's special intelligence service; title: Culture at war : weaponizing anthropology at the OSS; title: Postwar ambiguities : looking backward at the war.