Acknowledgements
This book originated in a panel at the 2003 American Anthropological Association's annual meetings entitled Anthropology at the Dawn of the Cold War. The panel featured Herbert Lewis, David Price, Eric Ross, Frank Salamone, George Stocking, Susan Trencher, and me, with Rob Hancock and Marc Pinkoski as discussants. Though not all of them chose to or were able to continue on this journey with me, their input, advice, and inspiration were invaluable in the production of this book. I would also...
Dustin M Wax
It's said that if there's a book you really want to read and you can't find it, you must write it yourself. Such is the case with this book while researching an ethnographic project conducted in the 1950s, I searched desperately for material to help me situate my subject in the history of the discipline at the time. I was surprised and a little disheartened to find that very little had been written on the history of anthropology after World War II, let alone explicitly dealing with the Cold...
Contents
Introduction Anthropology at the Dawn of the Cold War 1 1 Ashley's Ghost McCarthyism, Science, and Human Nature 17 Susan Sperling 2 Materialism's Free Pass Karl Wittfogel, McCarthyism, and the Bureaucratization of Guilt 37 3 American Colonialism at the Dawn of the Cold War 62 Marc Pinkoski 4 In the Name of Science The Cold War and the Direction 5 Peasants on Our Minds Anthropology, the Cold War, and the Myth of Peasant Conservatism 108 6 Organizing Anthropology Sol Tax and the...