TY - JOUR
AU - Oppenheim, Robert
AB - Book Reviews 1087 informed of the outbreak of war three daintelligence operations. H ys e discusses ways cia after the fact. funding was funneled through front organiza- tions to steer social science research. Acquir- Yafeng Xia ing easily accessible area knowledge of poten- Long Island University tial use for informing counterinsurgency and Brooklyn, New York psychological warfare was a particular aim of doi: 10.1093/jahist/jaw635 the cia and military strategists in this era, and Price analyzes their support for the Human Relations Area Files and similar initiatives. To- Cold War Anthropolog y: The cia , the Pentagon, and the Growth of Dual Use Anthropology. By ward the end of the book, Price makes note of the scandals that erupted in the 1960s and ear- David H. Price. (Durham: Duke University ly 1970s when news of military attempts to en- Press, 2016. xxxii, 452 pp. Cloth, $104.95. Paper, $29.95.) list anthropology for its goals in Latin America and Thailand came to light; radical anthropol- David H. Price’s Cold War Anthropolog i ys the ogists’ efforts to reform the field in their wake; culminating book of his series on the re- latioand the institutional r n esistance to such efforts. ship between 
TI - Cold War Anthropology: The CIA, the Pentagon, and the Growth of Dual Use Anthropology
JF - The Journal of American History
DO - 10.1093/jahist/jaw589
DA - 2017-03-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/cold-war-anthropology-the-cia-the-pentagon-and-the-growth-of-dual-use-lV0xr3OLVn
SP - 1087
EP - 1087
VL - 103
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -