Engaging Colonial Knowledge

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Introduction: Engaging Colonial Knowledge

   1. Introduction: Engaging Colonial Knowledge

      • Ricardo Roque, Kim A. Wagner

      Pages 1-32

3. Epistemic Fissures

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33

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   2. ‘In Cold Blood’: Hierarchies of Credibility and the Politics of Colonial Narratives

      • Ann Laura Stoler

      Pages 35-66

   3. North Indian Lives in the Archives of the Colonial State

      • Leigh Denault

      Pages 67-88

   4. Reading Farm and Forest: Colonial Forest Science and Policy in Southern Nigeria

      • Pauline von Hellermann

      Pages 89-114

4. Indigenous Voices and Colonial Records

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113

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   2. Insights from the ‘Ancient Word’: The Use of Colonial Sources in the Study of Aztec Society

      • Caroline Dodds Pennock

      Pages 115-134

   3. ‘In Unrestrained Conversation’: Approvers and the Colonial Ethnography of Crime in Nineteenth-Century India

      • Kim A. Wagner

      Pages 135-162

   4. From Civil Servant to Little King: An Indigenous Construction of Colonial Authority in Early Nineteenth-Century South India

      • Niels Brimnes

      Pages 163-183

   5. French Anthropology and the Durkheimians in Colonial Indochina

      • Susan Bayly

      Pages 184-213

5. Archives of Entanglement

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 215-215

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   2. Treachery and Ethnicity in Portuguese Representations of Sri Lanka

      • Alan Strathern

      Pages 217-234

   3. William Hodges As Anthropologist and Historian

      • Nicholas Thomas

      Pages 235-253

   4. Entangled with Otherness: Military Ethnographies of Headhunting in East Timor

      • Ricardo Roque

      Pages 254-278

   5. ‘What Do You Really Want in German East Africa, Herr Professor?’ Counterinsurgency and the Science Effect in Colonial Tanzania

      • Andrew Zimmerman

      Pages 279-300

6. Back Matter

   Pages 301-306

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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.

• Africa
• China
• Europe
• history
• India
• Nigeria
• society
• Sri Lanka
• world history

"Overall, the contributions emphasise the potential of the colonial archives in providing access to a historical reality through the addition of analytical criticism. The case studies convincingly indicate omissions of 'post-Orientalist' criticism....The high quality of the individual contributions is undeniable." - Nathanael Kuck, Comparativ

• Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, Portugal

  Ricardo Roque

• University of London, UK

  Kim A. Wagner

SUSAN BAYLY Reader in Historical Anthropology, Cambridge University, UK NIELS BRIMNES Associate Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark LEIGH DENAULT Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge, UK and Research Associate, Centre for History and Economics, King's College, Cambridge, UK CAROLINE DODDS PENNOCK Lecturer in Early Modern History, the University of Leicester, UK ANN LAURA STOLER Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies, the Graduate Faculty of The New School for Social Research, New York, USA ALAN STRATHERN Research Fellow at Churchill College, University of Cambridge, UK NICHOLAS THOMAS Professor of Historical Anthropology and Director of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK PAULINE VON HELLERMANN Research Fellow, the University of York, UK ANDREW ZIMMERMAN Associate Professor of History, the George Washington University in Washington, DC, USA

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