Threatening Anthropology: McCarthyism and the FBI's Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface -- A Note on References -- CHAPTER 1 A Running Start at the Cold War: Time, Place, and Outcomes -- CHAPTER 2 Melville Jacobs, Albert Canwell, and University of Washington Regents: A Message Sent -- CHAPTER 3 Syncopated Incompetence: The American Anthropological Association's Reluctance to Protect Academic Freedom -- CHAPTER 4 Hoover's Informer -- CHAPTER 5 Lessons Learned: Jacobs's Fallout and Swadesh's Troubles -- CHAPTER 6 Public Show Trials: Gene Weltfish and a Conspiracy of Silence -- CHAPTER 7 Bernhard Stern: ''A Sense of Atrophy among Those Who Fear'' -- CHAPTER 8 Persecuting Equality: The Travails of Jack Harris and Mary Shepardson -- CHAPTER 9 Examining the FBI's Means and Methods -- CHAPTER 10 Known Shades of Red: Marxist Anthropologists Who Escaped Public Show Trials -- CHAPTER 11 Red Diaper Babies, Suspect Agnates, Cognates, and Affines -- CHAPTER 12 Culture, Equality, Poverty, and Paranoia: The FBI, Oscar Lewis, and Margaret Mead -- CHAPTER 13 Crusading Liberals Advocating for Racial Justice: Philleo Nash and Ashley Montagu -- CHAPTER 14 The Suspicions of Internationalists -- CHAPTER 15 A Glimpse of Post-McCarthyism: FBI Surveillance and Consequences for Activism -- CHAPTER 16 Through a Fog Darkly: The Cold War's Impact on Free Inquiry -- APPENDIX On Using the Freedom of Information Act -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index