Autobiography of an Archive : : A Scholar's Passage to India / / Nicholas Dirks.
The decades between 1970 and the end of the twentieth century saw the disciplines of history and anthropology draw closer together, with historians paying more attention to social and cultural factors and the significance of everyday experience in the study of the past. The people, rather than elite...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cultures of History
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Passage to India
- Part I. Autobiography
- 1. Annals of the Archive: Ethnographic Notes on the Sources of History
- 2. Autobiography of an Archive
- 3. Preface to the Second Edition of The Hollow Crown
- Part II. History and Anthropology
- 4. Castes of Mind: The Original Caste
- 5. Ritual and Resistance: Subversion as a Social Fact
- 6. The Policing of Tradition: Colonialism and Anthropology in Southern India
- Part III. Empire
- 7. Imperial Sovereignty
- 8. Bringing the Company Back In: The Scandal of Early Global Capitalism
- 9. The Idea of Empire
- Part IV. The Politics of Knowledge
- 10. In Near Ruins: Cultural Theory at the End of the Century
- 11. G. S. Ghurye and the Politics of Sociological Knowledge
- 12. South Asian Studies: Futures Past
- Part V. University
- 13. Franz Boas and the American University: A Personal Account
- 14. Scholars and Spies: Worldly Knowledge and the Predicament of the University
- 15. The Opening of the American Mind
- Notes
- Permissions
- Index