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Price draws on extensive archival research including correspondence, oral histories, published sources, court hearings, and more than 30,000 pages of fbi and government memorandums released to him under the Freedom of Information Act. He describes government monitoring of activism and leftist thought on college campuses, the surveillance of specific anthropologists, and the disturbing failure of the academic community--including the American Anthropological Association--to challenge the witch hunts. Today the "war on terror" is invoked to license the government's renewed monitoring of academic work, and it is increasingly difficult for researchers to access government documents, as Price reveals in the appendix describing his wrangling with Freedom of Information Act requests. A disquieting chronicle of censorship and its consequences in the past, Threatening Anthropology is an impassioned cautionary tale for the present.
Author: David H. Price
ISBN-10: 0822333384
ISBN-13: 9780822333388
Publisher: Duke University Press
Language: English
Published: 04/20/2004
Pages: 448
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.39lbs
Size: 9.30h x 5.98w x 1.08d
Review Citation(s):
Univ PR Books for Public Libry 01/01/2005 pg. 9 - Recommended/Special Interest
Choice 01/01/2005 pg. 897
David H. Price is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Saint Martin's College in Lacey, Washington. He is the author of the Atlas of World Cultures: A Geographical Guide to Ethnographic Literature.
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