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An empire of facts : colonial power, cultural knowledge, and Islam in Algeria, 1870-1914
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An empire of facts : colonial power, cultural knowledge, and Islam in Algeria, 1870-1914 / George R. Trumbull IV.
ISBN
9780521516549 (hbk.)
0521516544 (hbk.)
9780521734349 (pbk.)
0521734347 (pbk.)
Published
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Physical Description
xvii, 309 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Format
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Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 26, 2010
Series
Critical perspectives on empire
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : "sa vie étrange autour de nous"
Writing like a state : the question of anthropology and the colonial origins of politicized ethnography
The lies that empire tells itself when times are easy
"Au coin des rues Diderot et Moïse" : the ethnography of the esoteric and the politics of religious sociability
"Les mauvais génies dans tous les contes de fées" : the ethnography of popular religion and the fashioning of Algerian primitivism
"Have you need of a model, he will furnish one on command " : the gendering of morality and the production of difference in colonial ethnography
Discipline and publish : militant ethnography and crimes against culture.
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