Article Title

The Promise and Peril of Public Anthropology

Authors

Ben Feinberg, Warren Wilson College

Abstract

A review of:

Why America’s Top Pundits Are Wrong: Anthropologists Talk Back edited by Catherine Besteman and Hugh Gusterson. University of California Press: Berkeley, 2005. 282 pp.

and

Anthropologists in the Public Sphere: Speaking Out on War, Peace, and American Power edited by Roberto J. González. University of Texas Press: Austin, 2004. 288 pp.

and

Threatening Anthropology: McCarthyism and the FBI’s Surveillance of Activist Anthropologists by David H. Price. Duke University Press: Durham, 2004. 426 pp.

Recommended Citation

Feinberg, Ben (2006) "The Promise and Peril of Public Anthropology," Human Rights & Human Welfare: Vol. 6: Iss. 1, Article 26.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.du.edu/hrhw/vol6/iss1/26