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
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Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Physical Description
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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
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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
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United States -- History -- 1933-1945.
| Library | Material Type | Item Barcode | Shelf Number | Copy |
|---|
| IIEMSA | General Books | 33168025432481 | 306.0973 P946A 2008 | 1 |