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Author:   Dustin M. Wax
Publisher:   Pluto Press
Imprint:   Pluto Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.50cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 21.50cm
Weight:   0.251kg
ISBN:  

9780745325866

ISBN 10:   0745325866
Pages:   192
Publication Date:   20 January 2008
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction: Anthropology at the Dawn of the Cold War by Dustin M. Wax 1. Ashley's Ghost: McCarthyism, Science, and Human Nature (Susan Sperling) 2. Materialism's Free Pass: Karl Wittfogel, McCarthyism, and the 'Bureaucratisation of Guilt' by David Price 3. American Colonialism at the Dawn of the Cold War by Marc Pinkoski) 4. In the Name of Science: The Cold War and the Direction of Scientific Pursuits by Frank A. Salamone 5. Peasants on Our Minds: Anthropology, the Cold War and the Myth of Peasant Conservatism by Eric B. Ross) 6. Organizing Anthropology: Sol Tax and the Professionalisation of Anthropology by Dustin M. Wax 7. Columbia University and the Mundial Upheaval Society: A Study in Academic Networking by William Peace) 8. Afterword: Reconceptualising Anthropology's Historiography by Robert L.A. Hancock Contributors Index

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For Marxist anthropologists this book is a valuable insight into the baggage that materialism carries within the discipline.[...] For others interested in Marxist theory and history it is a fascinating study in the political nature of ideas, and the terrible consequences of mechanical and deterministic approaches to Marxism. -- Penny Howard

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Dustin M. Wax is a cultural anthropologist and the Executive Director at the Burlesque Hall of Fame. He has previously taught anthropology and women's studies at the College of Southern Nevada and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He is the editor of Anthropology At the Dawn of the Cold War (Pluto, 2008).

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