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Discipline and the other body : correction, corporeality, colonialism / edited by Steven Pierce & Anupama Rao.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Colonies--Administration.
- Colonies.
- Postcolonialism.
- Violence.
- Punishment.
- Human rights.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (366 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A comparative historical and ethnographic perspective on corporeal violence, the body's emergence as a political entity in colonial and postcolonial governance, and the production of a discourse of human rights.
- Contents:
- Discipline and the other body : humanitarianism, violence, and the colonial exception / Anupama Rao and Steven Pierce
- Defining and defiling the criminal body at the Cape of Good Hope : punishing the crime of suicide under Dutch East India Company rule, circa 1652-1795 / Kerry Ward
- The burden of Louis Congo and the evolution of savagery in colonial Louisiana / Shannon Lee Dawdy
- "Sinful propensities" : piracy, sodomy, and empire in the rhetoric of naval reform, 1770-1870 / Isaac Land
- The raj's other great game : policing the sexual frontiers of the Indian army in the first half of the nineteenth century / Douglas M. Peers
- Problems of violence, states of terror : torture in colonial India / Anupama Rao
- Punishment and the political body : flogging and colonialism in northern Nigeria / Steven Pierce
- Footbinding and anti-footbinding in China : the subject of pain in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries / Dorothy Ko
- An economy of suffering : addressing the violence of discipline in railway workers' petitions to the agent of the East Indian Railway, 1930-47 / Laura Bear
- Spirit discipline : gender, Islam, and hierarchies of treatment in postcolonial northern Nigeria / Susan O'Brien
- Selections from Castaway / Yvette Christianse.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [317]-346) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8223-8793-X
- OCLC:
- 637124241
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