Engaging colonial knowledge : reading European archives in world history / / edited by Ricardo Roque and Kim A. Wagner.
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| Superior document: | Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series |
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
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| Physical Description: | xi, 306 p. :; ill. |
| 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. |
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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.