Ordering Africa : anthropology, European imperialism and the politics of knowledge
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Ordering Africa : anthropology, European imperialism and the politics of knowledge
(Studies in imperialism / general editor, John M. MacKenzie)
Manchester University Press, 2010, c2007
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"Fitst published by Manchester University Press in hardback 2007. This paperback edition first published 2010"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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. -- .
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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Helen Tilley, "Africa, Imperialism, and Anthropology"
1. Emmanuelle Sibeud, "The Elusive Bureau of Colonial Ethnography: African Experience and Ethnographic Terrain in France, 1906-30"
2. Holger Stoecker, "The Advancement of African Studies by the German Research Foundation (GRF), 1920-45"
3. Benoit de l'Estoile, "Internationalization and Scientific Nationalism: the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures (IIALC) Between the Wars"
4. Sara Pugach, "Of Conjunctions, Comportment, and Clothing: The Place of African Teaching Assistants at Hamburg's Colonial Institute, 1909-19"
5. Jean-Herve Jezequel, "Voices of Their Own?: African Participation in the Production of Colonial Knowledge in French West Africa, 1900-50"
6. Bruce Berman and John Lonsdale, "Custom, Modernity and the Search for Kihooto: Kenyatta, Malinowski, and the Making of Facing Mount Kenya"
7. Patrick Harries, "From the Alps to Africa: Swiss Missionaries and the Rise of Anthropology"
8. John Cinnamon, "Colonial Anthropologies and the Primordial Imagination in Equatorial Africa"
9. Nancy Hunt, "Colonial Medical Anthropology and the Making of the Central African Infertility Belt"
10. Barbara Sorgoni, "The Scripts of Alberto Pollera, an Italian officer in Colonial Eritrea: Administration, Ethnography and Gender"
11. Douglas Johnson, "From Political Intelligence to Colonial Anthropology: Ethnography in the Sudan Intelligence Reports and Sudan Notes and Records"
12. Gary Wilder, "Colonial Ethnology and Political Rationality in French West Africa"
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