Engaging colonial knowledge

Titel: Engaging colonial knowledge : reading European archives in world history / edited by Ricardo Roque and Kim A. Wagner
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Veröffentlicht: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, [2012]
Umfang: XI, 306 Seiten : Illustrationen ; 23 cm
Format: Buch
Sprache: Englisch
Schriftenreihe/
mehrbändiges Werk:
Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
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ISBN: 0230241980 ; 9780230241985
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction: Engaging Colonial Knowledge
  • Part I
  • Epistemic Fissures
  • 'In Cold Blood': Hierarchies of Credibility and the Politics of Colonial Narratives
  • North Indian Lives in the Archives of the Colonial State
  • Reading Farm and Forest: Colonial Forest Science and Policy in Southern Nigeria
  • Part II
  • Indigenous Voices In Colonial Records
  • Insights from the 'Ancient Word': The Use of Colonial Sources in the Study of Aztec Society
  • 'In unrestrained conversation': Approvers and the Colonial Ethnography of Crime in Nineteenth-Century India
  • From Civil Servant to Little King: an Indigenous Construction of Colonial Authority in Early Nineteenth-century South India
  • French Anthropology and the Durkheimians in Colonial Indochina
  • Part III
  • Archives Of Entanglement
  • Treachery and Ethnicity in Portuguese Representations of Sri Lanka
  • William Hodges as Anthropologist and Historian
  • Entangled with Otherness: Military Ethnographies of Headhunting in East Timor
  • 'What do you Really Want in German East Africa, Herr Professor?' Counterinsurgency and the Science Effect in Colonial Tanzania
  • Endnotes