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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812946603321

Titolo

Engaging colonial knowledge : reading European archives in world history / / edited by Ricardo Roque and Kim A. Wagner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; ; New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

ISBN

1-283-36127-2

9786613361271

0-230-36007-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2012.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 p.)

Collana

Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series

Altri autori (Persone)

RoqueRicardo

WagnerKim A

Disciplina

909/.09712

Soggetti

Europe Colonies Historiography Congresses

Europe Colonies History Archival resources Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

Presenting a set of rich case-studies which demonstrate novel and productive approaches to the study of colonial knowledge, this volume covers British, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish colonial encounters in Africa, Asia, America and the Pacific, from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.