Comments on: The Most Dangerous Books

By: Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog » Red Book Bashing

Sun, 18 Dec 2005 19:52:43 +0000

[...] A while ago, Rex posted on Human Events’ list of the “most dangerous books of the 19th & 20th century”. While ideologically frightening, we can be thankful that Human Events doesn’t (yet?) have any sort of enforcement power behind their list-making. [...]

By: Dustin

Dustin — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 20:08:36 +0000

Maybe it might be worth asking what the “most dangerous” books in and for anthropology might have been. I think Boas’ “Race, Language, & Culture” might be considered a “dangerous” anthropology book, at least to the kind of people who read and write for Human Events; Madison Grant’s (I’m not sure that’s the author’s name) book on the “suicide” of the white race might be one in the “dangerous for” anthropology column.

By: Alun » It’s not procastination - it’s research

Alun » It’s not procastination - it’s research — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 10:33:27 +0000

[...] check out Savage Minds” which seems a bit shallow) has a thought provoking question. What are the most dangerous books of the 19th and 20th century?. It’s a respons [...]

By: Rex

Rex — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 02:46:47 +0000

I suspect that the principle of selection here is probably hampered by the fact that they haven’t actually read any of them.

By: Uncle $cam

Uncle $cam — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 02:40:15 +0000

“Bush youth?”
A CIA scheme to sponsor trainee spies secretly through US university courses has caused anger among UK academics.

The Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholars Program pays anthropology students, whose names are not disclosed, up to $50,000 (£27,500) a year.

They are expected to use the techniques of “fieldwork” to gather political and cultural details on other countries.

Britain’s Association of Social Anthropologists called the scholarships ethically “dangerous” and divisive.
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Undergraduates taking part in the scholarship programme must not reveal their funding source and are expected to attend military intelligence summer camps.

By: Kerim

Kerim — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 01:33:27 +0000

Timothy Burke has a very similar post up on his blog. I think the discussion there has pretty much finished off the topic. Coming of Age in Samoa? I mean, really...

By: anomieandme

anomieandme — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000

the next few years – I’m studying these texts; such is an arts education in anything other than economics in any other country in the world except America – (and maybe Iran [I’m sure they at least cover Das Kapital in China]). Rex over at Savage Minds (A wicked anthro blog), a little less tempermental than I, gets all nostalgic: I long for the time when ‘conservative’ meant ‘people who read Burke and Oakeshott and Macintyre.’ And when did ‘conservatives’ stop reading the Great Books and