Ordering Africa : anthropology, European imperialism and the politics of knowledge / Helley Tilley with Robert J. Gordon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tilley, Helen, 1968-

Gordon, Robert J., 1947-

Series:

Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)

Studies in imperialism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnology--Africa.

Ethnology.

Applied anthropology.

Anthropology.

Philosophy.

History.

Africa.

Anthropology--Africa--History.

Anthropology--Africa--Philosophy.

Applied anthropology--Africa.

Imperialism.

Physical Description:

xiv, 390 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Manchester ; New York : Manchester University Press ; New York : distributed exclusively in the USA by Palgrave, 2007.

Summary:

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 and African studies as well as the history of science.

Contents:

Introduction: Africa, imperialism, and anthropology / Helen Tilley 1

I Metropolitan agendas and institutions

1 The elusive bureau of colonial ethnography in France, 1907-1925 / Emmanuelle Sibeud 49

2 The advancement of African studies in Berlin by the 'Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft', 1920-1945 / Holger Stoecker 67

3 Internationalization and 'scientific nationalism': the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures between the wars / Benoit de L'Estoile 95

II African ethnographers, self-expression, and modernity

4 Of conjunctions, comportment, and clothing: the place of African teaching assistants in Berlin and Hamburg, 1889-1919 / Sara Pugach 119

5 Voices of their own? African participation in the production of colonial knowledge in French West Africa, 1910-1950 / Jean-Herve Jezequel 145

6 Custom, modernity, and the search for Kihooto: Kenyatta, Malinowski, and the making of Facing Mount Kenya / Bruce Berman, John Lonsdale 173

III Salvage anthropology, primordial imagination, and 'dying races'

7 From the Alps to Africa: Swiss missionaries and anthropology / Patrick Harries 201

8 Colonial anthropologies and the primordial imagination in equatorial Africa / John M. Cinnamon 225

9 Colonial medical anthropology and the making of the central African infertility belt / Nancy Rose Hunt 252

IV Colonial states, applied ethnography, and policy

10 The scripts of Alberto Pollera, an Italian officer in Colonial Eritrea: administration, ethnography and gender / Barbara Sorgoni 285

11 Political intelligence, colonial ethnography, and analytical anthropology in the Sudan / Douglas H. Johnson 309

12 Colonial ethnology and political rationality in French West Africa / Gary Wilder 336.

Notes:

"Several of the chapters in this volume were first presented at a three-day conference held at Oxford University on 10-12 March 2000"--P. xi.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780719062391

071906239X

OCLC:

144227244

Publisher Number:

60000798460