I had never heard of Kathleen Gough, but I was familiar with her bold declaration in 1968 that “Anthropology is the child of Western imperialism.” As the writer Sandra Lindemann makes clear in a recent biography of Gough, there’s a reason most of us have never heard of the woman who spoke it. As a communist academic whose radical antiwar activities not only got her fired from her university, but landed her on FBI and international watchlists in the 1960s and ‘70s, she was often silenced by powerful institutions. Lindemann succeeds in giving the anthropologist her due in A Radical Read more