The Ethnographic State
France and the Invention of Moroccan Islam
In this long-awaited study, Edmund Burke argues that the Mission scientifique du Maroc and the sociology of Islam it engendered was a complexly colonial project--shaped as much by Algeria as by British India and blind to indigenous sentiment. Never has the genealogy of imperial ethnography been so carefully excavated, nor have the limits of colonial social science been so painstakingly exposed. If the invention of 'Moroccan Islam' was a pathway to the modern state, it is also extraordinary evidence of the impact of Western ethnography on the business of colonial hegemony. -Antoinette Burton, author of Empire in Question: Reading, Writing and…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-520-27381-8
- EAN: 9780520273818
- Produktnummer: 15695403
- Verlag: University of California Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H23.8 cm x B16.1 cm x D2.4 cm 588 g
- Abbildungen: 1 map
- Gewicht: 588
- Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)
Über den Autor
Edmund Burke III is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and the author or editor of many works, including Struggle and Survival in the Modern Middle East (UC Press).
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