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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