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Subjects
Historiography, Colonies, History, Congresses, Archival resources, Europe, colonies, Europe, historiographyPlaces
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Engaging colonial knowledge: reading European archives in world history
2011, Palgrave Macmillan
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0230241980 9780230241985
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Book Details
Table of 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.
Edition Notes
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.
Includes index.