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The ongoing battle for hearts and minds in Iraq and Afghanistan is a military strategy inspired originally by efforts at domestic social control and counterinsurgency in the United States. Weaponizing Anthropology documents how anthropological knowledge and ethnographic methods are harnessed by military and intelligence agencies in post-9/11 America to placate hostile foreign populations. David H. Price outlines the ethical implications of appropriating this traditional academic discourse for use by embedded, militarized research teams.
Price's inquiry into past relationships between anthropologists and the CIA, FBI, and Pentagon provides the historical base for this expose of the current abuses of anthropology by military and intelligence agencies. Weaponizing Anthropology explores the ways that recent shifts in funding sources for university students threaten academic freedom, as new secretive CIA-linked fellowship programs rapidly infiltrate American university campuses. Price examines the specific uses of anthropological knowledge in military doctrine that have appeared in a new generation of counterinsurgency manuals and paramilitary social science units like the Human Terrain Teams.
David H. Price is the author of Threatening Anthropology: McCarthyism and the FBI's Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists and Anthropological Intelligence: The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War. He is a member of the Network of Concerned Anthropologists and teaches at St. Martin's College in Lacey, Washington.
David H. Price: David Price is the author of Threatening Anthropology: McCarthyism and the FBI’s Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists and Anthropological Intelligence: The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War (both published by Duke University Press). He is a frequent contributor to CounterPunch. He teaches at St. Martin's College in Lacey, Washington.
Introduction.
PT I: Anthropology, History, War, Ethics & Current Manifestations
1. War is a Force that Gives Anthropology Ethics
2. “The CIA’s University Spies: PRISP, ICSP, NSEP & the Big Payback.
3. Silent Coup: How the CIA Welcomed Itself Back on Campus Without Public Resistance.
4. Non-attribution
PT II: Manuals
5. Commandeering Scholarship: The New Counterinsurgency Manual, Anthropology, and Academic Pillaging
6. "The Military 'Leveraging' of Cultural Knowledge: The Newly Available 2004 Stryker Report Evaluating Iraqi Failures."
7. Social Science in Harness: Inside the Minerva Consortium.
8. "The Leaky Ship of Human Terrain Systems: On Reading the Leaked Human Terrain Systems Handbook."
9. On Rendering Cultural Complexities as Stereotype: Anthropological Reflections on the Special Forces Advisor Guide
PT III: Counterinsurgency, Human Terrain Systems & Theory
10. Adapted and updated from: Counterinsurgency’s Free Ride.
11. Problems with Counterinsurgent Anthropological Theory: or, by the Time a Military Relies on Counterinsurgency for foreign victory it has already Lost.
12. Human Terrain Whistleblower: John Allison Inside the Belly of the HTS Beastie
13. Working for Robots: Human Terrain, Anthropologists and the War in Afghanistan
14. Afterward.
Bibiography