Engaging colonial knowledge: reading European archives in world history

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. RICARDO ROQUE Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal. He works on the history and anthropology of colonialism, human sciences, and cross-cultural contact in the Portuguese empire. He isthe author of 'Headhunting and Colonialism: Anthropology and the Circulation of Human Skulls in the Portuguese Empire, 1870-1930' (2010). KIM A. WAGNER Lecturer in Imperial and World History at the University of Birmingham, UK. He has published extensively on crime and rebellion in British India, including 'Thuggee: Banditry and the British in Early Nineteenth-Century India' (2007) and 'The Great Fear of 1857: Rumours, Conspiracies and the Making of the Indian Uprising' (2010). INDICE: Illustrations - Acknowledgements - Notes on Contributors - Introduction: Engaging Colonial Knowledge; 'R.Roque '& 'K.A.Wagner - 'PART I: EPISTEMIC FISSURES - 'In Cold Blood': Hierarchies of Credibility and the Politics of Colonial Narratives; 'A.L.Stoler' - North Indian Lives in the Archives of the Colonial State; 'L.Denault' - Reading Farm and Forest: Colonial Forest Scienceand Policy in Southern Nigeria; 'P.von Hellermann - 'PART II: INDIGENOUS VOICES IN COLONIAL RECORDS - Insights from the 'Ancient Word': The Use of ColonialSources in the Study of Aztec Society; 'C.Dodds Pennock' - 'In unrestrained conversation': Approvers and the Colonial Ethnography of Crime in Nineteenth-Century India; 'K.A.Wagner - 'From Civil Servant to Little King: an Indigenous Construction of Colonial Authority in Early Nineteenth-century South India; 'N.Brimnes - 'French Anthropology and the Durkheimians in Colonial Indochina; 'S.Bayly - 'PART III: ARCHIVES OF ENTANGLEMENT - Treachery and Ethnicity in Portuguese Representations of Sri Lanka; 'A.Strathern - 'William Hodges as Anthropologist and Historian; 'N.Thomas' - Entangled with Otherness: Military Ethnographies of Headhunting in East Timor; 'R.Roque' - 'What do you Really Want in German East Africa, Herr Professor?' Counterinsurgency and the Science Effect inColonial Tanzania; 'A.Zimmerman' - Endnotes

• ISBN: 978-0-230-24198-5
• Editorial: Palgrave MacM
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 320
• Fecha Publicación: 11/11/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés