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Anthropological Intelligence : The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War /

By the time the United States officially entered World War II, more than half of American anthropologists were using their professional knowledge and skills to advance the war effort. The range of their war-related work was extraordinary. They helped gather military intelligence, pinpointed possible...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Price, David H., 1960-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • American anthropology and the War to End All Wars
  • Professional associations and the scope of American anthropology's wartime applications
  • Allied and Axis anthropologies
  • The war on campus
  • American anthropologists join the Wartime Brain Trust
  • Anthropologists and White House war projects
  • Internment fieldwork : anthropologists and the war relocation authority
  • Anthropology and Nihonjinron at the Office of War Information
  • Archaeology and J. Edgar Hoover's Special Intelligence Service
  • Culture at war : weaponizing anthropology at the OSS
  • Postwar ambiguities : looking backward at the war.