{"product_id":"threatening-anthropology-9780822333388","title":"Threatening Anthropology","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn archival history of governmental investigations of anthropologists in the 1950s, based on over 20,000 pages of documents obtained by the author under the Freedom of Information Act\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“An enthralling expedition into the heart of academic darkness. David H. Price brilliantly confirms that there are no depths to which policemen and professors will not sink.”—Alexander Cockburn, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eCounterPunch \u003c\/i\u003eand columnist for \u003ci\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“David H. Price’s painstaking account of political repression in anthropology after the Second World War is a unique contribution to the history of the field. More than that, it may foreshadow what some today may entertain. Let us hope not, but let us not be naive.”—Dell Hymes, editor of \u003ci\u003eReinventing Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Threatening Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e is a bold piece of scholarship, one that breaks the silence on many issues in the American trajectory that have changed only a bit since the Cold War and—given recent indications—might still come to the foreground in such a way as to make the McCarthy era look like play.”—Laura Nader, University of California, Berkeley\u003cbr\u003e\"That Price had the drive, the stamina, and the imagination to pursue this arduous task for more than a decade is an effort for which all anthropologists, and all of those interested in the history of the McCarthy years, must be profoundly grateful. . . . Price's book . . . is an illuminating contribution to 'anthropology's understanding of itself'-one that should be on the shelf of every serious student of the history of U.S. anthropology.\" -- George W. Stocking Jr. * American Anthropologist *\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is a spellbinder, a creative contribution to the history of anthropology, to understanding post-9\/11 reactions, and to recalling threads of repression in American society that are continuous. It is a provocative, seminal contribution to scholarly history.\" -- Laura Nader * The Historian *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface \u003cbr\u003e xvii\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e1 \u003c\/b\u003e A Running Start at the Cold War: Time, Place, and Outcomes 1\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e2\u003c\/b\u003e Melville Jacobs, Albert Canwell, and the University of Washington Regents: A Message Sent 34\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e3 \u003c\/b\u003e Syncopated Incompetence: The American Anthropological Association’s Reluctance to Protect Academic Freedom 50\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e4 \u003c\/b\u003e Hoover’s Informer 70\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e5 \u003c\/b\u003e Lessons Learned: Jacobs’s Fallout and Swadesh’s Troubles 90\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e6\u003c\/b\u003e Public Show Trials: Gene Weltfish and a Conspiracy of Silence 109\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e7 \u003c\/b\u003eBernhard Stern: “A Sense of Atrophy among Those Who Fear: 136\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e8\u003c\/b\u003e Persecuting Equality: The Travails of Jack Harris and Mary Shepardson 154\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e9\u003c\/b\u003e Estimating the FBI’s Means and Methods 169\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e10 \u003c\/b\u003eKnown Shades of Red: Marxist Anthropologists Who Escaped Public Show Trials 195\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e11\u003c\/b\u003e Red Diaper Babies, Suspect Agnates, Cognates, and Affines 225\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e12\u003c\/b\u003e Culture, Equality, Poverty, and Paranoia: The FBI, Oscar Lewis, and Margaret Mead 237\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e13\u003c\/b\u003e Crusading Liberals Advocating for Racial Justice: Philleo Nash and Ashley Montagu 263\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e14 \u003c\/b\u003e The Suspicions of Internationalists 284\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e15 \u003c\/b\u003e A Glimpse of Post-McCarthyism: FBI Surveillance and Consequences for Activism 306\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e16 \u003c\/b\u003e Through a Fog Darkly: The Cold War’s Impact on Free Inquiry 341\u003cbr\u003e Appendix: On Using the Freedom of Information Act 355\u003cbr\u003e Notes 363\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 383\u003cbr\u003e Index 405","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406035788119,"sku":"9780822333388","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/threatening-anthropology-9780822333388","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}