Anthropological Intelligence: The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War

摘要

[...] Gregory Bateson carried out clandestine missions in South Asia; Carleton Coon used his anthropological knowledge to train assassins and kidnappers in North Africa; Rhoda Métraux studied the war's impact on the morale of German civilians; and David Mandelbaum directed a unit that planned strategies for the OSS's famous Detachment 101, tasked with funding and coordinating Kachin resistance groups in Burma. Anthropological Intelligence could not have come at a more critical time as the Pentagon, the CIA, and countless private contract firms (such as BAE Systems and NEK Advanced Securities) aggressively seek to recruit social scientists for positions ranging from " Intelligence Analyst" to "Field Anthropologist" on experimental counterinsurgency teams.