An empire of facts : colonial power, cultural knowledge, and Islam in Algeria, 1870-1914 / George R. Trumbull IV.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trumbull, George R., 1977-

Series:

Critical perspectives on empire

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Relations.

Historiography.

Political culture.

Ethnic relations.

Colonial influence.

Islam.

Ethnology--Political aspects.

History.

Ethnology.

Public opinion.

Islam--Public opinion.

Algeria--Foreign public opinion, French.

Algeria.

Islam--Public opinion--History.

Public opinion--France--History.

Ethnology--Political aspects--France--History.

Islam--Algeria--Historiography.

Algeria--Colonial influence--Historiography.

Algeria--Ethnic relations--Historiography.

Political culture--Algeria--Historiography.

Algeria--Relations--France--Historiography.

France--Relations--Algeria--Historiography.

France.

Physical Description:

xvii, 309 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Contents:

Introduction : "sa vie étrange autour de nous"

Writing like a state : the question of anthropology and the colonial origins of politicized ethnography

The lies that empire tells itself when times are easy

"Au coin des rues Diderot et Moïse" : the ethnography of the esoteric and the politics of religious sociability

"Les mauvais génies dans tous les contes de fées" : the ethnography of popular religion and the fashioning of Algerian primitivism

"Have you need of a model, he will furnish one on command " : the gendering of morality and the production of difference in colonial ethnography

Discipline and publish : militant ethnography and crimes against culture.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780521516549

0521516544

9780521734349

0521734347

OCLC:

351325471