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Ordering Africa : anthropology, European imperialism and the politics of knowledge / Helen Tilley with Robert J. Gordon.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)
- Studies in imperialism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anthropology--Africa--History.
- Anthropology.
- Anthropology--Research--Europe--History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 390 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- This edited volume provides a comparative overview of the role of anthropology in colonial Africa. With essays exploring metropolitan research institutes, Africans as ethnographers and the transnational features of knowledge production, this text both consolidates and extends a range of new research questions focusing on the politics of imperial knowledge.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgments
- General editors introduction
- Introduction
- PART I: Metropolitan agendas and institutions
- 1 The elusive bureau of colonial ethnography in France, 19071925
- 2 The advancement of African studies in Berlin by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 19201945
- 3 Internationalization and scientific nationalism
- PART II: African ethnographers, self-expression, and modernity
- 4 Of conjunctions, comportment, and clothing
- 5 Voices of their own?
- 6 Custom, modernity, and the search for Kihooto
- PART III: Salvage anthropology, primordial imagination, and dying races
- 7 From the Alps to Africa
- 8 Colonial anthropologies and the primordial imagination in equatorial Africa
- 9 Colonial medical anthropology and the making of the central African infertility belt
- 10 The scripts of Alberto Pollera, an Italian officer in Colonial Eritrea
- 11 Political intelligence, colonial ethnography, and analytical anthropology in the Sudan
- 12 Colonial ethnology and political rationality in French West Africa
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on April 9, 2026).
- OCLC:
- 1467876403
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