Anthropologists as Spies (Antropólogos como espías). The Nation 2/11/2000
http://www.thenation.com/article/anthropologists-spies/ Anthropologists as Spies Collaboration occurred in the past, and there's no professional bar to it today. By David Price NOVEMBER 2, 2000 Facebook Twitter Email Print On December 20, 1919, under the heading “Scientists as Spies,” The Nation published a letter by Franz Boas, the father of academic anthropology in America. Boas charged that four American anthropologists, whom he did not name, had abused their professional research positions by conducting espionage in Central America during the First World War. Boas strongly condemned their actions, writing that they had “prostituted science by using it as a cover for their activities as spies.” Anthropologists spying for their country severely betrayed their science and damaged the credibility of all anthropological research, Boas wrote; a scientist who uses his research as a cover for political spying forfeits the right to be classified as a scientist...
