Weaponizing anthropology: social science in service of the... state/​ D. H Price

• Weaponizing anthropology : social science in service of the militarized state / David H. Price.

Also Titled

• Social science in the service of the militarized state

Author

• Price, David H.

Edition

• 1st ed.

Published

• Oakland, Calif. : AK Press, 2011.

Physical Description

• 219 p. ; 19 cm.

Subjects

• Counterinsurgency -- United States.
• Social sciences and state -- United States.
• Social sciences -- Moral and ethical aspects.
• Military planning -- United States.
• Military ethics.
• United States -- History -- 1933-1945.

Summary

• 'Weaponizing Anthropology' documents how anthropological knowlege and ethnographic methods are harnessed by military and intelligence agencies in post-9/11 America to placate hostile foreign populations.

Contents

• Pt.I Politics, ethics, and the military intelligence complex's quiet triumphal return to campus : War is a force that gives anthropology ethics
• The CIA's university spies : PRISP, ICSP, NSEP, and the big payback
• Social science in harness : the gravitational distortions of the Minerva Consortium
• Silent coup : how the CIA welcomed itself back onto American university campuses without public protest
• Pt.II Manuals, deconstructing the texts of cultural warfare : The leaky ship of human terrain systems
• Commandeering scholarship : the new counterinsurgency manual, anthropology, and academic pillaging
• The military leveraging of cultural knowledge : the 2004 Stryker Report evaluating Iraq failures
• Rendering cultural complexities as stereotype : anthropological reflections on the Special forces advisor guide
• Pt.III Counterinsurgency theories, fantasies, and harsh realities : Human terrain dissenter : inside human terrain team training's Heart of darkness
• Going native : Hollywood's human terrain avatars
• Problems of counterinsurgent anthropological theory : or, by the time a military relies on counterinsurgency for foreign victories it has already lost
• Working for robots : human terrain, anthropologists and the war in Afghanistan.

Notes

• Formerly CIP.
• Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-211) and index.

Language

• English