An edition of An empire of facts (2009)

An empire of facts

colonial power, cultural knowledge, and Islam in Algeria, 1870-1914

An empire of facts
George R. Trumbull, George R. ...
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An edition of An empire of facts (2009)

An empire of facts

colonial power, cultural knowledge, and Islam in Algeria, 1870-1914

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Language
English
Pages
309

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Table of Contents

Introduction : "sa vie étrange autour de nous"
Writing like a state : the question of anthropology and the colonial origins of politicized ethnography
The lies that empire tells itself when times are easy
"Au coin des rues Diderot et Moïse" : the ethnography of the esoteric and the politics of religious sociability
"Les mauvais génies dans tous les contes de fées" : the ethnography of popular religion and the fashioning of Algerian primitivism
"Have you need of a model, he will furnish one on command " : the gendering of morality and the production of difference in colonial ethnography
Discipline and publish : militant ethnography and crimes against culture.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Cambridge, UK, New York
Series
Critical perspectives on empire

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
965/.03
Library of Congress
DT287.5.F8 T78 2009, DT287.5.F8T78 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
xvii, 309 p. :
Number of pages
309

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24116063M
ISBN 10
0521516544, 0521734347
ISBN 13
9780521516549, 9780521734349
LCCN
2009028173
OCLC/WorldCat
351325471

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL18789535W

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