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Reading David Price: Anthropological Intelligence

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"Today, most anthropologists are still loath to acknowledge, much less study, known connections between anthropology and the intelligence community." So wrote cultural anthropologist David Price in a much-discussed 2000 article for The Nation, recently expanded into the book Anthropological Intelligence. Thanks to the Freedom of Information Act, Price was able to research the little-known history of WWII-era anthropologists acting as spies under the cover of field work; his findings implicate a long-standing cozy relationship between the official American Anthropological Association and the CIA. With a recent Pentagon program installed to woo outgoing graduate students, Price's work is crucial to understanding a thorny subject.

– Max Goldberg

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