Carnal knowledge and imperial power : race and the intimate in colonial rule
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Carnal knowledge and imperial power : race and the intimate in colonial rule
University of California Press, c2010
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"With a new preface"
Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-317) and index
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Description
This landmark book tracks matters of intimacy to investigate matters of state in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Indonesia, particularly the critical role played by sexual arrangements and affective attachments in creating colonial categories and distinguishing the ruler from the ruled. Arguing that social classification is not a benign cultural act but a potent political one, Ann Laura Stoler's essays focus on parents and parenting, nursing mothers, servants, orphanages, and abandoned children to reveal why they were understood as so essential to imperial governance and why they have been so consistently absent from its historiography. In a new preface, Stoler takes up a broad range of problematics raised in the first edition, including the analytics of comparison, the treatment of the intimate, and more.
Table of Contents
Preface to the 2010 Edition: Zones of the Intimate in Imperial Formations
Acknowledgments
Note on Illustrations
1. GENEALOGIES OF THE INTIMATE: MOVEMENTS IN COLONIAL STUDIES
2. RETHINKING COLONIAL CATEGORIES: EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES AND THE BOUNDARIES OF THE RULE
3. CARNAL KNOWLEDGE AND IMPERIAL POWER: GENDER AND MORALITY IN THE MAKING OF RACE
4. SEXUAL AFFRONTS AND RACIAL FRONTIERS: CULTURAL COMPETENCE AND THE DANGERS OF METISSAGE
5. A SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION: CHILDREN ON THE IMPERIAL DIVIDE
6. A COLONIAL READING OF FOUCAULT: BOURGEOIS BODIES AND RACIAL SELVES
7. MEMORY-WORK IN JAVA: A CAUTIONARY TALE
EPILOGUE. CAVEATS ON COMFORT ZONES AND COMPARATIVE FRAMES
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Index
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