Public Science of the Savage Mind: Contesting Cultural Anthropology in the Cold War Classroom

2013 ◽  
Vol 49 (3) ◽  
pp. 306-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erika Lorraine Milam
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Public Science ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Savage Mind

The Passion of Anthropology in the U.S., circa 2007

2007 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-55 ◽  
Author(s):  
George E. Marcus
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Geographical Area ◽  
The United States ◽  
Franz Boas ◽  
History Of ◽  
Institutional Model ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The U.S

For me, since the 1980s, the distinctive event in the recent history of social and cultural anthropology in the United States has been a profound cutting of the discipline (or rather of this influential component of the four-field disciplinary organisation of general anthropology) from moorings that defined it through much of the twentieth century. Certainly the discipline is still wedded functionally to certain aspects of the institutional model which has shaped the identity of social and cultural anthropologists, as pioneered through the works of such figures as Bronislaw Malinowski in England and Franz Boas in the United States. Most anthropologists still begin their careers with a geographical area specialisation outside the U.S. However, few receive the intensive areas studies education that was available and encouraged in the U.S. during the 1950s through to the 1970s when, in the atmosphere of the Cold War and development studies, there was a huge investment in such interdisciplinary programmes that has since waned.

Hollywood’s Passing Contexts

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Megan Kelley
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Cultural Beliefs ◽  
World War ◽  
Cultural Contexts ◽  
Identity Studies ◽  
Hollywood Films ◽  
Psychoanalytic Discourse ◽  
The Cold War

This chapter explores how concepts about identity changed after World War II by focusing on cultural contexts which affected the ways that Hollywood films were produced and consumed. In particular, it considers the rise of psychology, cultural anthropology, and the culture of the Cold War. It discusses the idea that identities were malleable and how it coexisted with discourses about authenticity and “identity crisis.” It also shows how Hollywood reflected and promoted atomic and Cold War fears, identity anxiety, and the rise of psychoanalytic discourse. The chapter suggests that all the divergent ideological strands and cultural beliefs that characterized the postwar period, including Cold War fears of an “enemy within” and the proliferation of identity studies, had influenced Hollywood representations of racial, gender, sexual, and political identities on-screen as well as audience interpretations of those representations.

The Origins of the Cold War

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Kennedy-Pipe
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
The Cold War
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