Ordering Africa: Anthropology, European Imperialism and the Politics of Knowledge
African research played a major role in transforming the discipline of anthropology in the twentieth century. Ethnographic studies, in turn, had significant effects on the way imperial powers in Africa approached subject peoples. Ordering Africa provides the first comparative history of these processes. With essays exploring metropolitan research institutes, Africans as ethnographers, the transnational features of knowledge production, and the relationship between anthropology and colonial administration, this volume both consolidates and extends a range of new research questions focusing on the politics of imperial knowledge. Specific chapte…
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Weitere Autoren: Tilley, Helen (Hrsg.) / Gordon, Robert (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-7190-6239-1
- EAN: 9780719062391
- Produktnummer: 23203347
- Verlag: Manchester Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 390 S.
- Masse: H23.8 cm x B16.0 cm x D3.6 cm 757 g
- Gewicht: 757
Über den Autor
Helen Tilley is Assistant Professor in the History Department at Princeton University with affiliations to the Programs in the History of Science and African Studies. Robert Gordon is a Professor of anthropology at the University of Vermont and a Research Affiliate at Free State University. His most recent book is Tarzan was an Expatriate and other tales in the anthropology of adventure edited with Luis Vivanco
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