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Weaponizing Anthropology: Social Science in Service of the Militarized State (Counterpunch) Paperback – August 16, 2011

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The ongoing battle for hearts and minds in Iraq and Afghanistan is a military strategy inspired originally by efforts at domestic social control and counterinsurgency in the United States. Weaponizing Anthropology documents how anthropological knowledge and ethnographic methods are harnessed by military and intelligence agencies in post-9/11 America to placate hostile foreign populations. David H. Price outlines the ethical implications of appropriating this traditional academic discourse for use by embedded, militarized research teams.

Price's inquiry into past relationships between anthropologists and the CIA, FBI, and Pentagon provides the historical base for this expose of the current abuses of anthropology by military and intelligence agencies. Weaponizing Anthropology explores the ways that recent shifts in funding sources for university students threaten academic freedom, as new secretive CIA-linked fellowship programs rapidly infiltrate American university campuses. Price examines the specific uses of anthropological knowledge in military doctrine that have appeared in a new generation of counterinsurgency manuals and paramilitary social science units like the Human Terrain Teams.

David H. Price is the author of Threatening Anthropology: McCarthyism and the FBI's Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists and Anthropological Intelligence: The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War. He is a member of the Network of Concerned Anthropologists and teaches at St. Martin's College in Lacey, Washington.

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David H. Price: David Price is the author of Threatening Anthropology: McCarthyism and the FBI’s Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists and Anthropological Intelligence: The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War (both published by Duke University Press). He is a frequent contributor to CounterPunch. He teaches at St. Martin's College in Lacey, Washington.

Series: Counterpunch
Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: AK Press; Reprint edition (August 16, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1849350639
ISBN-13: 978-1849350631
Product Dimensions: 5.2 x 0.5 x 8 inches
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Sorrow yet realized

March 30, 2013

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Price's Weaponizing Anthropology is the most frightening short book that I have read since Foucault's Discipline and Punish or the more recently published papers from law Professor Fred H. Cate. I suspect that just as it has been with Foucault and Cate that I will return to Price's book again and again.

Truly a brutal book which at once has nothing to do with Anthropology and at the same time has everything to do with it.

This book gives a great deal but if you have any notion that this book is solely about some facet or even the state of Anthropology as a field of study then you are in for a most troubling awakening--for something is already afoot in our Universities and publicly funded colleges.

Perhaps, the most important and timely book I have read in past year.

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A Must Read

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An essential piece, in logically discerning the United States' fallacy of greatness. Price's book should be required reading in middle schools.

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mary hollowell

exposing secrecy in academia

June 26, 2014

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Thank you for revealing these growing and secretive PRISP programs on our university campuses. Covert PRISP scholars in our college classrooms sounds eerily reminiscent of the East German Stasi. Could this program have metastasized in the 9 years since its conception? Only courage and transparency can help us now as we speed down the slippery slope in the never ending "War on Terror."

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nelle

Should be required reading for public and Anthropologists

May 9, 2014

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A great book. It provides info not readily available until now. A bit repetitive because it is a compilation of articles

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M. Pavlik

another must read from David Price

December 29, 2012

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David Price has written another great book about the uses of social science, especially anthropology, by governments and the power elite.
Particularly importnat is the ICSP details- where the student loan "awards" are used as a cudgel to force grad students to work as spies. The awards cost can be converted into debt at triple the amount- and since most of us are groaning under normal student debt, this is unbearable!
All three of his books on this topic are worth reading, both for anthropologists and people concerned about higher education in the US.

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