David Price (anthropologist)

David H. Price (born 1960) is an American anthropologist. He studied anthropology at The Evergreen State College, the University of Chicago and the University of Florida (PhD 1993) and is a professor of anthropology at St. Martin's University in Lacey, Washington.[1][2][3]

David Price
Born
David H. Price

1960 (age 59–60)
Academic background
Alma materThe Evergreen State College
University of Chicago
University of Florida
Academic work
Main interestsAnthropology

Price has conducted cultural anthropological and archaeological field work in Egypt and elsewhere in the Near East. His primary research area is the history of anthropology along with various interactions between anthropologists and military/intelligence agencies.[4] His 2004 book Threatening Anthropology used tens of thousands of Federal Bureau of Investigation files released under the Freedom of Information Act to examine how the FBI harassed anthropologists that were activists in issues of racial equality during the McCarthy era. His 2008 book Anthropological Intelligence documented American anthropologists’ contributions to the Second World War.[5] He has written journalistic exposés on military uses of anthropology in the Human Terrain System program, and on post-9/11 programs bringing the CIA and other intelligence agencies back on to American university campuses.[6] Much of Price's historical and contemporary writing focuses on the ethical and political context of anthropological practice.[7]

Price is a frequent contributor to CounterPunch, and is a member of the Network of Concerned Anthropologists and Journal of Facebook Post Studies.

Selected works

Books

  • Cold War Anthropology: The CIA, The Pentagon and the Growth of Dual Use Anthropology. Duke University Press, 2016
  • Weaponizing Anthropology: Social Science in Service of the Militarized State. AK/CounterPunch Books, 2011
  • Anthropological Intelligence: The Deployment and Neglect of American Anthropology in the Second World War. Duke University Press, 2008
  • Threatening Anthropology: McCarthyism and the FBI's Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists. Duke University Press, 2004

Articles

References
  1. Saint Martin's University. "Faculty and Staff Directory". Archived from the original on 11 January 2011. Retrieved 4 December 2010.
  2. Gale Biography in Context. 2012. "David H. Price" Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2012
  3. "The Writers Directory, 31st Edition. 2013. "David H. Price," Detroit: St. James Press,"
  4. Peter C. Baker, The Nation June 16, 2016. "Bad Intelligence". Retrieved 29 October 2016.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. Merrill Singer (2005). "Selling Anthropology to the Highest Bidder: An Interview with David Price" (PDF). Society for Applied Anthropology Newsletter. 16(2):5–7. Retrieved 11 August 2011.
  6. "2010. Interview with David Price on 'The CIA Is Welcoming Itself Back onto American University Campuses'". Democracy Now. 9 February 2010. Retrieved 11 August 2011.
  7. "The Ethics of a Code for Anthropologists." Archived 2011-06-01 at the Wayback Machine The Chronicle of Higher Education. Vol. 55, Issue 15. 12/5/2008
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