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Empires, nations, and natives : anthropology and state-making / Benoit de L'Estoile, Federico Neiburg, and Lygia Sigaud, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political anthropology.
- Political customs and rites.
- Politics and culture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (351 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- By drawing on the social history of the social sciences, the sociology of scientific knowledge, and the ethnography of the State, these essays show how anthropology and state-building should be considered as intertwined processes.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Anthropology and the government of "natives," a comparative approach / Benoit de L'Estoile, Federico Neiburg, and Lygia Sigaud
- Rationalizing colonial domination? : anthropology and native policy in French-ruled Africa / Benoit de L'Estoile
- "The good-hearted Portuguese people" : anthropology of nation, anthropology of empire / Omar Ribeiro Thomaz
- Vichy France and the end of scientific folklore (1937-1954) / Florence Weber
- From nation to empire : war and national character studies in the United States / Federico Neiburg and Marcio Goldman
- Anthropology at the end of empire : the rise and fall of the colonial Social Sciences Research Council, 1944-1962 / David Mills
- Bordering on anthropology : dialectics of a national tradition in Mexico / Claudio Lomnitz
- Indigenism in Brazil : the international migration of state policies / Antonio Carlos de Souza Lima
- The anthropologist as expert : Brazilian ethnology between indianism and indigenism / Joao Pacheco de Oliveira
- Anthropology, development, and nongovernmental organizations in Latin America / Jorge F. Pantaleon
- The ethnologist and the architect : a postcolonial experiment in the French Pacific / Alban Bensa
- "Today we have naming of parts" : the work of anthropologists in southern Africa / Adam Kuper.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [301]-326) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780822387107
- 0822387107
- OCLC:
- 226067930
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