David Price (anthropologist)

David Harold 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)[1] and is a professor of anthropology at St. Martin's University in Lacey, Washington.[2][3][4]

David Price
Born	David Harold Price 1960 (age 59–60)
Academic background
Alma mater	The Evergreen State College University of Chicago University of Florida
Academic work
Main interests	Anthropology

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.[5] 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.[6] 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.[7] Much of Price's historical and contemporary writing focuses on the ethical and political context of anthropological practice.[8]

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.
• Atlas of World Cultures: A Geographical Guide to Ethnographic Literature. SAGE Publications, 1989.

Articles

• "Counterinsurgency by Other Names: Complicating Humanitarian Applied Anthropology in Current, Former, and Future War Zones." Human Organization, Vol. 73, No. 2, 2014, pp. 95–105.
• "The New Surveillance Normal: NSA and Corporate Surveillance in the Age of Global Capitalism." Monthly Review, Vol. 66, No. 3, 2014, pp. 43–53.
• "Memory's Half-Life: A Social History of Wiretaps." CounterPunch, Vol. 20, No. 6, August 2013, pp. 10–14.
• "The Destruction of Conscience in the National Academy of Sciences: An Interview With Marshall Sahlins." CounterPunch, February 26, 2013.
• "Silent Coup: How the CIA is Welcoming itself Back onto American University Campuses." CounterPunch, April 9, 2010.
• "Human Terrain Systems Dissenter Resigns, Tells Inside Story of Training's Heart of Darkness." CounterPunch, February 15, 2010.
• "Buying a Piece of Anthropology, Part One: Human Ecology and Unwitting Anthropological Research for the CIA." Anthropology Today, Vol. 23, No. 3, June 2007, pp. 8–13.
• "Buying a Piece of Anthropology, Part Two: Our Tortured Past." Anthropology Today, Vol. 23, No. 5, October 2007, pp. 17–22.
• "Pilfered Scholarship Devastates General Petraeus's Counterinsurgency Manual." CounterPunch, October 30, 2007, later republished in Counter-Counterinsurgency Manual (University of Chicago Press).
• "The CIA's University Spies." CounterPunch January 1, 2005, pp. 1–6.
• "Subtle Means and Enticing Carrots: The Impact of Funding on American Cold War Anthropology." Critique of Anthropology, Vol. 23, No. 4, 2003, pp. 373–401.

PhD Dissertation

• The Evolution of Irrigation in Egypt's Fayoum Oasis: State, Village and Conveyance Loss. University of Florida, 1993.

References

1. The Evolution of Irrigation in Egypt's Fayoum Oasis: State, Village and Conveyance Loss. 1993. University of Florida, PhD dissertation.
2. Saint Martin's University. "Faculty and Staff Directory". Archived from the original on 11 January 2011. Retrieved 4 December 2010.
3. Gale Biography in Context. 2012. "David H. Price" Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2012
4. "The Writers Directory, 31st Edition. 2013. "David H. Price," Detroit: St. James Press,"
5. Peter C. Baker, The Nation June 16, 2016. "Bad Intelligence". Retrieved 29 October 2016.CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
6. Singer, Merrill. "Selling Anthropology to the Highest Bidder: An Interview with David Price." Society for Applied Anthropology Newsletter, Vol. 16, No. 3, August 2005, pp. 5–7. Note: Newsletter No. 3 is mislabeled as No. 2.
7. "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.
8. "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

External links

• Works by or about David Price in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• St. Martin’s University faculty page
• David H. Price bibliography
• David H. Price at ResearchGate