at Orca Books, Olympia, WA

David Price, Professor of Anthropology at St. Martin’s University, will discuss his new book, which shows how anthropological knowledge is being harnessed by military and intelligence agencies to placate hostile foreign populations, particularly in the military operations of Iraq and Afghanistan. Price’s inquiry into past relationships between anthropologists and the CIA and Pentagon provides the historical base for this exposé of the current abuses of anthropology by these agencies.

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