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Weaponizing Anthropology (Counterpunch) Paperback – March 10, 2016

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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.
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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.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ CounterPunch; Reprint edition (March 10, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 236 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1849350639
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1849350631
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.3 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.25 x 0.54 x 8 inches
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David H. Price is a Professor of anthropology at St. Martin's University in Lacey, Washington. He has conducted cultural anthropological and archaeological fieldwork and research in the United States and Palestine, Egypt and Yemen. He is a Pacific Northwest native, a founding member of the Network of Concerned Anthropologists, and a frequent contributor to CounterPunch. He has written an historical trilogy examining American anthropologists' interactions with intelligence agencies. The first book, Anthropological Intelligence: The Use and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War, (2008, Duke) documents anthropological contributions to the Second World War. The second volume, Threatening Anthropology: McCarthyism and the FBI's Persecution of Activist Anthropologists (2004, Duke), examines McCarthyism's effects on anthropologists. The final volume, Cold War Anthropology: The CIA, the Pentagon and the Growth of Dual Use Anthropology (Duke 2016), explores anthropologists interactions with the CIA and Pentagon during the Cold War. His book Weaponizing Anthropology: Social Science in Service of the Militarized State (2011, CounterPunch Books) critically examines current trends in the militarization of anthropology and American universities.

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  • Michael D. Kilman
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book
    Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2022
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    A wonderful book on the complexities and serious ethical concerns of improper use of social science for warfare. Price doesn't just challenge the ethical questions, he leaves the entire argument of counterinsurgency via social science without any room for serious rebuttal.
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  • portlandjaywalker
    5.0 out of 5 stars Sorrow yet realized
    Reviewed in the United States on 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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  • nelle
    4.0 out of 5 stars Should be required reading for public and Anthropologists
    Reviewed in the United States on 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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  • mary hollowell
    5.0 out of 5 stars exposing secrecy in academia
    Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 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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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Read
    Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2016
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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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  • M. Pavlik
    5.0 out of 5 stars another must read from David Price
    Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2012
    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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  • Ignatius Reilly
    4.0 out of 5 stars Food for thought - lumpy, stodgy food, but food nonetheless
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 3, 2017
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    Interesting viewpoints expressed, comes off a bit like a conspiracy nut at times though. Also, quite a few grammatical errors and spelling mistakes. (Given the paranoidal gist of this book, I began to wonder if the CIA had implanted these mistakes in order to discredit Price!?)

    More than anything, this book gave me food for thought. Lumpy, stodgy food, but food nonetheless. Probably an essential read if you are thinking of joining the Peace Corps, or if you have some interest in the Military Industrial Complex. Just know that some of the thinking on display is not very 'joined up'.
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  • rojocalienteful
    4.0 out of 5 stars Anthropologist's Food for Thought
    Reviewed in Canada on May 18, 2014
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    I really enjoyed this book! The author does a great job laying out the many problems which currently plague the anthropological discipline. Although, the book is focused on the US and the military courting of anthropologists for human terrain systems, and thus lacks some applicability for Canadian students (or non-American students generally). It nevertheless provides a great deal of material to consider.
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