Patrick L. Schmidt, "Harvard's Quixotic Pursuit of a New Science: The Rise and Fall of the Department of Social Relations" (Rowman and Littlefield, 2022)
New Books in Anthropology
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The Rise of the Counterculture
Many of the people who became involved in post what they called in the 80s post modern anthropology were people who had gone to Soakrell and to do their PhDs. A lot of their more post modern work was a reaction against the kind of scientific rigor that they established there. This cold warrior program didn't just produce cold warriors but also produced a backlash, which is part of your book.
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