Engaging colonial knowledge reading European archives in world history / edited by Ricardo Roque and Kim A. Wagner.
| Other author | Roque, Ricardo. |
| Other author | Wagner, Kim A. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, |
| Description | xi, 306 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Introduction : engaging colonial knowledge / Ricardo Roque and Kim A. Wagner -- "In cold blood" : hierarchies of credibility and the politics of colonial narratives / Ann Laura Stoler -- North Indian lives in the archives of the colonial state / Leigh Denault -- Reading farm and forest : colonial forest science and policy in southern Nigeria / Pauline von Hellermann -- Insights from the "ancient word" : the use of colonial sources in the study of Aztec society / Caroline Dodds Pennock -- "In unrestrained conversation" : approvers and the colonial ethnography of crime in nineteenth-century India / Kim A. Wagner -- From civil servant to little king : an indigenous construction of colonial authority in early nineteenth-century south India / Niels Brimnes -- French anthropology and the Durkheimians in colonial Indochina / Susan Bayly -- Treachery and ethnicity in Portuguese representations of Sri Lanka / Alan Strathern -- William hodges as anthropologist and historian / Nicholas Thomas -- Entangled with otherness : military ethnographies of headhunting in East Timor / Ricardo Roque -- "What do you really want in German East Africa, Herr Professor?" : counterinsurgency and the science effect in colonial Tanzania / Andrew Zimmerman. |
| General note | Includes papers originally presented at the workshop "Beyond Deconstruction : Engaging Colonial Knowledge", held at King's College, Cambridge, in Sept. 2006, as well as some post-conference papers. |
| General note | Includes index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2011048093 |
| ISBN | 9780230241985 (alk. paper) |
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