Weaponizing Anthropology: Social Science in Service of the Militarized State

by David H. Price

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849350639
• ISBN13: 9781849350631
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: AK Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 7.9"