Colonial Subjects,9780472110179

Colonial Subjects

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ISBN13: 9780472110179
ISBN10: 0472110179
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1999-11-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Michigan Pr
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Summary

It is often forgotten that anthropology -- the scientific study of cultural difference -- arose from situations that required a practical management of cultural differences. Out of the practical contexts of colonial contact -- administration, mission, nationalism, policing, settler cultivation, tourism, warfare -- emerged methods, and images of otherness, that inform anthropological notions of cultural difference to this day.

The essays in this volume share the assumption that "ethnography, " far from being the unique purview of anthropology, is a broader field of practice out of which and alongside which anthropology attempted to distinguish itself as a scientific discipline. They explore a variety of situations in colonial South and Southeast Asia and Africa and in the treatment of the indigenous inhabitants of North America and Australia to provide genealogies of present-day anthropological practices, tracing them back to the subjects of colonial ethnography.

This book introduces into the history of anthropology many of the insights developed in recent s

Author Biography

Oscar Salemink is Program Officer for Social Sciences and Humanities, The Ford Foundation-Vietnam.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Locating the Colonial Subjects of Anthropology
1(52)
Peter Pels
Oscar Salemink
The Fetish of Civilization: Sacrificial Blood and Monetary Debt
53(29)
William Pietz
The Rise and Fall of the Indian Aborigines: Orientalism, Anglicism, and the Emergence of an Ethnology of India, 1833--1869
82(35)
Peter Pels
The Illusion of Consent: Language, Caste, and Colonial Rule in India
117(36)
Gloria Goodwin Raheja
The Crimes of Colonialism: Anthropology and the Textualization of India
153(27)
Nicholas B. Dirks
Hopi Snakes, Zuni Corn: Early Ethnography in the American Southwest
180(16)
Curtis M. Hinsley
White Man's Flour: The Politics and Poetics of an Anthropological Discovery
196(45)
Patrick Wolfe
The Making of Traditional Bali: Colonial Ethnography and Bureaucratic Reproduction
241(41)
Henk Schulte Nordholt
Ethnography as Martial Art: Ethnicizing Vietnam's Montagnards, 1930--1954
282(44)
Oscar Salemink
Constructing Racial Landscapes: Africans, Administrators, and Anthropologists in Late Colonial Northern Rhodesia
326(27)
Lyn Schumaker
Contributors 353(2)
Name Index 355(4)
Subject Index 359

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