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Along the archival grain : epistemic anxieties and colonial common sense / Ann Laura Stoler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stoler, Ann Laura.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Archives--Indonesia--History.
- Archives.
- Colonial administrators--Indonesia.
- Colonial administrators.
- Colonial administrators--Netherlands.
- Indonesia--Politics and government--19th century.
- Indonesia.
- Indonesia--Social policy--19th century.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations, maps.
- Edition:
- Course Book
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c2009.
- Summary:
- Offers a methodological and analytic opening to the affective registers of imperial governance and the political content of archival forms. This title identifies the social epistemologies that guided perception and practice, revealing the problematic racial ontologies of that confused epistemic space.-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Chapter One. Prologue in two parts
- Chapter Two. The pulse of the archive
- Part 1: Colonial archives and their affective states
- Chapter Three: Habits of a Colonial Heart
- Chapter Four: Developing historical negatives
- Chapter Five: Commissions and their storied edges
- Party 2: Watermarks in colonial history
- Chapter Six: Hierarchies of credibility
- Chapter Seven: Imperial dispositions of disregard
- Appendix 1. Colonial chronologies
- Appendix 2. Governors-general of the Netherlands Indies, 1830-1930.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-306) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612936340
- 9780691015774
- 0691015775
- 9781282936348
- 1282936344
- 9781400835478
- 140083547X
- OCLC:
- 697184411
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