Ordering Africa: anthropology, European imperialism and the politics of knowledge

Provides the first comparative overview of the role of anthropology in colonial Africa. With essays exploring metropolitan research institutes, Africans as ethnographers and the transnational features of knowledge production, this volume both consolidates and extends a range of new research question...

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Weitere Verfasser: Tilley, Helen 1968- (HerausgeberIn), Gordon, Robert J. 1947- (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Manchester Manchester University Press 2010
Ausgabe:Paperback edition
Schriftenreihe:Studies in imperialism
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Zusammenfassung:Provides the first comparative overview of the role of anthropology in colonial Africa. With essays exploring metropolitan research institutes, Africans as ethnographers and the transnational features of knowledge production, this volume both consolidates and extends a range of new research questions focusing on the politics of imperial 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 chapters examine French West Africa, the Belgian and French Congo, the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Italian Northeast Africa, Kenya, and Equatorial Africa (Gabon) as well as developments in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland. A major collection of essays that will be welcomed by scholars interested in imperial history and the history of Africa
Beschreibung:Auf dem Cover: "Edited by Helen Tilley with Robert J. Gordon"
Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 390 Seiten)
ISBN:9781526118714
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DOI:10.7765/9781526118714

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