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Anthropological intelligence: the deployment and neglect of American anthropology in the Second World War, David H. Price

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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non fiction

Anthropological intelligence: the deployment and neglect of American anthropology in the Second World War

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David H. Price

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