In Cold War Anthropology, David H. Price offers a provocative account of the profound influence that the American security state has had on the field of anthrop

Examines the influence of McCarthyism and the CIA on anthropology in the cold war era.

By the time the United States officially entered World War II, more than half of American anthropologists were using their professional knowledge and skills to

DIVAn archival history of governmental investigations of anthropologists in the 1950s, based on over 20,000 pages of documents obtained by the author under the

In this conceptually bold project, Heonik Kwon uses anthropology to interrogate the cold war's cultural and historical narratives. Adopting a truly panoramic vi