Carnal knowledge and imperial power : race and the intimate in colonial rule / Ann Laura Stoler; with a new preface.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stoler, Ann Laura, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Colonialism--history.

Colonialism.

Europe Colonies--Race relations.

Europe Colonies.

Imperialism--Social aspects.

Imperialism.

Sex customs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxv, 335 pages.) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, 2002.

Summary:

This landmark book tracks matters of intimacy to investigate matters of state in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Indonesia, particularly the critical role played by sexual arrangements and affective attachments in creating colonial categories and distinguishing the ruler from the ruled. Arguing that social classification is not a benign cultural act but a potent political one, Ann Laura Stoler’s essays focus on parents and parenting, nursing mothers, servants, orphanages, and abandoned children to reveal why they were understood as so essential to imperial governance and why they have been so consistently absent from its historiography. In a new preface, Stoler takes up a broad range of problematics raised in the first edition, including the analytics of comparison, the treatment of the intimate, and more.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface to the 2010 Edition: Zones of the Intimate in Imperial Formations

Acknowledgments

Note on Illustrations

1. Genealogies of the intimate: movements in colonial studies

2. Rethinking colonial categories: European communities and the boundaries of rule

3. Carnal knowledge and imperial power: gender and morality in the making of race

4. Sexual affronts and racial frontiers: cultural competence and the dangers of Metissage

5. A sentimental education: children on the imperial divide

6. A colonial reading of foucault: bourgeois bodies and racial selves

7. Memory-work in java: a cautionary tale

Epilogue. Caveats on comfort zones and comparative frames

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780520946194 (electronic book)

OCLC:

1408682047