Recalling the Belgian Congo : : Conversations and Introspection / / Marie-Bénédicte Dembour.
When the author embarked on her study, her aim was to approach former colonial officers with a view to analyzing processes of domination in the ex-Belgian Congo. However, after establishing a rapport with some of these officers, the author was soon forced to revise her initial assumptions, widely he...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2000] ©2000 |
| Year of Publication: | 2000 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | New Directions in Anthropology ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- NOTE ON USE OF LANGUAGE AND PSEUDONYMS
- LIST OF TRANSLATED TECHNICAL WORDS
- Maps and Illustrations
- 1: INTRODUCTION
- 2: A GLOSSARY IN DISGUISE
- 3: MY PROJECT
- 4: THEIR EXPECTATIONS
- 5: OUR DIALOGUES
- 6: MY STORY
- 7: THEIR RESPONSE
- 8: CONCLUSION: THE ANTHROPOLOGICAL POSITION
- APPENDIX 1: BASIC CAREER INFORMATION ON TERRITORIALS CITED IN THE TEXT
- APPENDIX 2: QUESTIONNAIRE SENT TO FORMER TERRITORIALS IN 1989
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX