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The anti-imperialist tradition in North American anthropology: Vietnam, the Left Academy, and the founding of ARPA

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  1. Another topic worth pursuing are the marked divergences in political cultures of the various Washington-based professional academic associations in the social sciences and humanities. For example, shortly after the successful November 2015 vote on BDS in the American Anthropological Association, a similar resolution was soundly defeated at the annual meetings of the American Historical Association (N. Davis, N. Rothman, personal communications).

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The author wishes to thank Dr. Price, and the members of that panel, including Marshall Sahlins, Karen Brodkin, James Faris and Gerald Sider for useful input, as well as the two anonymous reviewers of this manuscript.

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Appendix

Some names of anthropologists gleaned from records of the early years of ARPA, 1970–1975; this is a very incomplete list and deserves to be expanded; apologies for omissions.

  • Boston: Sandy Davis Richard Franke, Louise Lamphere, Jack Stauder

  • Washington: Bill Leap

  • Michigan: Rayna Rapp, Randy Reiter, Nancy Bonvillain, Bill Derman, Norma Diamond, Karen Sacks (Brodkin), John Moore

  • Puerto Rico: Antonio Lauria

  • Toronto: Bill Courtade, Meg Luxton, Krys Sieciechowicz, Richard Daly, Maureen Fitzgerald, John Saul, Kathleen Gough (briefly)

  • Connecticut: Jim Faris, Norman Chance, Ellen Antler, Anthony Kroch, Ben Magubane, Jay O’Brien, Ellen O’Brien, Peter Newcomer

  • New York: Eleanor Leacock, Marvin Harris, Gerald Sider, Muriel Schien, June Nash, Connie Sutton, Brooke Schoepf, Stanley Diamond, Christine Gailey.

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Lee, R.B. The anti-imperialist tradition in North American anthropology: Vietnam, the Left Academy, and the founding of ARPA. Dialect Anthropol 40, 59–67 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-016-9412-y

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