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Funding for "Situated Action: A Symbolic Interpretaton"David Price (dprice@CATADON.STMARTIN.EDU)Tue, 2 Jul 1996 13:58:32 -0700
military-industrial-dollars? If so, yes, its pretty amazing how much anthropological research (both applied and theoretical) during the last 50 years was directly and indirectly sponsored with issues of Cold War importance in the mind of sponsoring agencies. This has been anthropology's most interesting open secret. It goes beyond anthropologists (like Clyde Kluckhohn and others), who secretly worked with the FBI, CIA and State, and includes a surprising amount of basic anthropological and area study center research. Some of this was funded by agencies with clear military-intelligence ties (like ARPA--which you list below--and others), but when you look at what Millikan, Rostow and other modernization/development advocates were (then) secretly writing for CIA and State in the mid-50s it becomes clear that the funding of LOTS of other projects had a Cold War subtext. In this sense, its probably more important to look at what is done with (or can be done with) research, than just to look at who funds it--though this is important too. David Price dprice@stmartin.edu http://www.stmartin.edu/~dprice/cold.war.html ---------- > From: Sheldon Klein <sklein@CS.WISC.EDU> > A footnote on the title page of Vera & Simon's paper, > "Situated Action: A Symbolic Interpretation" COGNITIVE SCIENCE 17:7-48, > > lists the following funding sources: > > "This research was supported by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, > Department of Defense, ARPA Order 3597, monitored by the Air Force Avionics > Laboratory under contract F33615-81-K-1539, and by the Office of Naval Research, > Cognitive Science Program, under Contract No. N00014-89-J-1975N158." > > sklein@cs.wisc.edu
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