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Book SynopsisExamines the influence of McCarthyism and the CIA on anthropology in the cold war era.
Trade Review'A fascinating study in the political nature of ideas, and the terrible consequences of mechanical and deterministic approaches to Marxism' -- Penny Howard
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements
Introduction: Anthropology at the Dawn of the Cold War by Dustin M. Wax
1. Ashley's Ghost: McCarthyism, Science, and Human Nature (Susan Sperling)
2. Materialism's Free Pass: Karl Wittfogel, McCarthyism, and the 'Bureaucratisation of Guilt' by David Price
3. American Colonialism at the Dawn of the Cold War by Marc Pinkoski)
4. In the Name of Science: The Cold War and the Direction of Scientific Pursuits by Frank A. Salamone
5. Peasants on Our Minds: Anthropology, the Cold War and the Myth of Peasant Conservatism by Eric B. Ross)
6. Organizing Anthropology: Sol Tax and the Professionalisation of Anthropology by Dustin M. Wax
7. Columbia University and the Mundial Upheaval Society: A Study in Academic Networking by William Peace)
8. Afterword: Reconceptualising Anthropology's Historiography by Robert L.A. Hancock
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