David H. Price is Professor of Anthropology at Saint Martin’s University. He is the author of
Rebooting Professional Anthropology in the Postwar World
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Published:April 2016
During the postwar 1940s and the 1950s American anthropology was transformed by new funding opportunities, and professional associations like the American Anthropological Association (AAA) and the Society for Applied Anthropology repositioned themselves to meet new governmental and foundational funding programs. A new generation of American anthropologists were trained with funds provided by the GI Bill, and a new generation of applied anthropologists dreamed of using anthropological knowledge to engineer peaceful new societies. During the 1950s the CIA contacted the AAA Executive Board and negotiated a secret deal under which the CIA helped design and compile the AAA’s first membership roster using the agency’s computers, an arrangement that allowed the CIA access to useful knowledge of American anthropologists and their expertise.
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