David Harold Price (born 1960) is an American anthropologist. He studied anthropology at

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, the

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and the

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(PhD 1993) and is a professor of anthropology at

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.Gale Biography in Context. 2012. "David H. Price" ''

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''. Detroit: Gale, 2012 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. His 2004 book ''Threatening Anthropology'' used tens of thousands of

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files released under the

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to examine how the FBI harassed anthropologists that were activists in issues of racial equality during the

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. His 2008 book ''Anthropological Intelligence'' documented American anthropologists’ contributions to the

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. He has written journalistic exposés on military uses of anthropology in the Human Terrain System program, and on post-9/11 programs bringing the

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and other intelligence agencies back on to American university campuses. Much of Price's historical and contemporary writing focuses on the ethical and political context of anthropological practice."The Ethics of a Code for Anthropologists."
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''. Vol. 55, Issue 15. 12/5/2008 Price is a frequent contributor to ''

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'', and is a member of the

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Books

* ''The American Surveillance State: How The U.S. Spies On Dissent.'' Pluto Books, 2022.
''Cold War Anthropology: The CIA, the Pentagon and the Growth of Dual Use Anthropology''

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, 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''

, 2008. *''Threatening Anthropology: McCarthyism and the FBI's Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists''.

, 2004.
''Atlas of World Cultures: A Geographical Guide to Ethnographic Literature''
SAGE Publications, 1989.

References

External links

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St. Martin’s University faculty page

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