Anthropological intelligence: the deployment and neglect of American anthropology in the Second World War
by
 
Price, David H., 1960-

Title
Anthropological intelligence: the deployment and neglect of American anthropology in the Second World War

Author
Price, David H., 1960-

ISBN
9780822342199
 
9780822342373

Personal Author
Price, David H., 1960-

Publication Information
Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.

Physical Description
xix, 370 p. ; 24 cm.

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.

Subject Term
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.

Geographic Term
United States -- History -- 1933-1945.


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