Assertion: anthropologist | /r/CapableOf | serve as spy
Facets:
value: in central america
type: LOCATION
value: in mexico
type: LOCATION
value: for the american government
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: Thus, in 1919, when he discovered that four anthropologists, in the course of their research in other countries, were serving as spies for the American government, he wrote an angry letter to The Nation.
text: Boas also publicly denounced the role of anthropologists who served as spies in Mexico and Central America for the U.S. government during World War I. One of his most renowned studies, commissioned by President Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), was to examine the effects of the environment (in the sense of one’s location) on immigrants and their children.