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An empire of facts: colonial power, cultural knowledge, and Islam in Algeria, 1870-1914
2009, Cambridge University Press
in English
0521516544 9780521516549
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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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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