(P/B) WEAPONIZING ANTHROPOLOGY

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In the years since September 11, 2001, David Price has been at the forefront of public debates over the ethical and political issues raised by using anthropology for America's terror wars. Weaponizing Anthropology details the rapid militarization of anthropology and incursions by the CIA and other intelligence agencies onto American university campuses. Price combines his expert knowledge of the history of anthropologists' collaborations with military and intelligence agencies with an activist stance opposing current efforts to weaponize anthropology in global counterinsurgency campaigns. With the rapid growth of American military operations relying on cultural knowledge as a strategic tool for conquest and control, disciplinary loyalties aligning anthropologists with the peoples they study are strained in new ways as military sponsors seek to transform research subjects into targets and collaborators. Weaponizing Anthropology political and ethical critiques of a new generation of counterinsurgency programs like Human Terrain Systems, and a broad range of new academic funding programs like the Minerva Consortium, the Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholars Program, and the Intelligence Community Centers of Academic Excellence, that now bring the CIA and Pentagon onto university campuses. Weaponizing Anthropology a concise and profound critique of the rapid transformation of American social science into an appendage of the National Security State. (From the publisher)

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INTRODUCTION
Anthropology's Military Shadow
PART 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
PART 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
PART III - COUTERINSURGENCY 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
References Cited
Index