ABSTRACT
Anthropology largely missed the First Nuclear Age. Consequently there has been a big hole where there could have been a conversation between anthropologists and political scientists about international relations and the Cold War. In the early years of the Cold War European and American anthropologists were still predominantly focused on the description of the social and cultural dynamics of small-scale societies as they emerged from the colonial era. From the late 1960s anthropologists did broach larger questions of international political economy but their interest was generally focused on the social dynamics of colonialism and decolonization, transnational migration, industrialization and, most recently, globalization.
