Price has done a masterful job of weaving a complex tapestry of American wartime anthropology. It is much more than a collection of case studies- the whole is certainly greater than the sum of its parts, and several themes emerge throughout the text. Price's work reveals that even in a "good war" like WWII, anthropologists often stood on ethically shaky ground when working for military and intelligence agencies, and some of them came to regret the long- term consequences of their participation.
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