From the margins : historical anthropology and its futures / edited by Brian Keith Axel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Axel, Brian Keith, 1967-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnohistory.

Social history.

Colonies.

Postcolonialism.

Physical Description:

x, 313 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2002.

Contents:

Pt. 1. Ethnography and the archive. Annals of the archive: ethnographic notes on the sources of history / Nicholas B. Dirks

Ethnographic representation, statistics, and modern power / Talal Asad

Pt. 2. Colonial anxieties. New Christians and new world fears in seventeenth-century Peru / Irene Silverblatt

The Kabyle myth: colonization and the production of ethnicity / Paul A. Silverstein

Developing historical negatives: race and the (modernist) visions of a colonial state / Ann Laura Stoler

Culture on the edges: Caribbean Creolization in historical context / Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Race, gender, and historical narrative in the reconstruction of a nation: remembering and forgetting the American Civil War / Bernard S. Cohn and Teri Silvio

Pt. 4. Archaeologies of the fantastic. Fantastic community / Brian Keith Axel

Occult economies and the violence of abstraction: notes from the South African postcolony / John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0822328615

0822328887

OCLC:

48449688