David Price (anthropologist)

{{short description|20th and 21st-century American anthropologist}}

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| name = David Price

| birth_name = David Harold Price

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| alma_mater = The Evergreen State College
University of Chicago
University of Florida

| main_interests = Anthropology

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David Harold Price (born 1960) is an American anthropologist. He studied anthropology at Evergreen State College, the University of Chicago and the University of Florida (PhD 1993)[https://ufdc.ufl.edu/AA00039110/00001 The Evolution of Irrigation in Egypt's Fayoum Oasis: State, Village and Conveyance Loss]. 1993. University of Florida, PhD dissertation. and is a professor of anthropology at St. Martin's University in Lacey, Washington.{{cite web|url=http://www.stmartin.edu/FacultyStaff/FacultyStaffDirectory.asp |title=Faculty and Staff Directory |author=Saint Martin's University |accessdate=4 December 2010 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110111113519/http://stmartin.edu/FacultyStaff/FacultyStaffDirectory.asp |archivedate=11 January 2011 }}Gale Biography in Context. 2012. "David H. Price" Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2012"The Writers Directory, 31st Edition. 2013. "David H. Price," Detroit: St. James Press,"

Price has conducted cultural anthropological and archaeological field work in Egypt and elsewhere in the Near East. His primary research area is the history of anthropology along with various interactions between anthropologists and military/intelligence agencies.{{cite web |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/bad-intelligence/ |title=Bad Intelligence |author=Peter C. Baker, The Nation June 16, 2016 |accessdate=29 October 2016}} His 2004 book Threatening Anthropology used tens of thousands of Federal Bureau of Investigation files released under the Freedom of Information Act to examine how the FBI harassed anthropologists that were activists in issues of racial equality during the McCarthy era. His 2008 book Anthropological Intelligence documented American anthropologists’ contributions to the Second World War.Singer, Merrill. [https://archive.org/download/selling-anthropology-to-the-highest-bidder-an-interview-with-david-price-by-merr/Selling%20Anthropology%20to%20the%20Highest%20Bidder%20-%20An%20Interview%20with%20David%20Price%2C%20by%20Merrill%20Singer%20%28Society%20for%20Applied%20Anthropology%20Newsletter%2C%20Vol.%2016%2C%20No.%203%2C%20August%202005%29%20pp.%205%E2%80%937.pdf "Selling Anthropology to the Highest Bidder: An Interview with David Price."] Society for Applied Anthropology Newsletter, Vol. 16, No. 3, August 2005, pp. 5–7. Note: Newsletter No. 3 is mislabeled as No. 2. He has written journalistic exposés on military uses of anthropology in the Human Terrain System program, and on post-9/11 programs bringing the CIA and other intelligence agencies back on to American university campuses.{{cite web |url=http://www.democracynow.org/2010/2/9/david_price_on_how_the_cia |title=2010. Interview with David Price on 'The CIA Is Welcoming Itself Back onto American University Campuses' |date=9 February 2010 |work=Democracy Now |accessdate=11 August 2011}} Much of Price's historical and contemporary writing focuses on the ethical and political context of anthropological practice.[http://homepages.stmartin.edu/fac_staff/dprice/anthro_ethics.pdf%20 "The Ethics of a Code for Anthropologists."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110601005927/http://homepages.stmartin.edu/fac_staff/dprice/anthro_ethics.pdf |date=2011-06-01 }} The Chronicle of Higher Education. Vol. 55, Issue 15. 12/5/2008

Price is a frequent contributor to CounterPunch, and is a member of the Network of Concerned Anthropologists. In 2022, David Price was identified as one of "today's top ten anthropologists" by the Academic Influencer ranking service.{{cite web|last=Barham|first=James|url=https://academicinfluence.com/rankings/people/most-influential-anthropologists-today|title=Top Influential Anthropologists Today|website=Academic Influence|access-date=12 November 2023}}