Autobiography of an archive
Subtitle: a scholar's passage to India
By: Nicholas B. Dirks
Series: Cultures of history; Cultures of history
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780231169660; 9780231169677
Subjects: Philosophy; Higher Education; SOCIAL SCIENCE; Anthropology and history; General; Anthropology; Anthropological archives; Interdisciplinary research
Description: Contains primary source material.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-372) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : passage to India; title: Annals of the archive : ethnographic notes on the sources of history; title: Autobiography of an archive; title: Preface to the second edition of the Hollow crown; title: Castes of mind; title: Ritual and resistance : subversion as a social fact; title: The policing of tradition : colonialism and anthropology in southern India; title: Imperial sovereignty; title: Bringing the company back in : the scandal of early global capitalism; title: The idea of empire; title: In near ruins; title: G.S. Ghurye and the politics of sociological knowledge; title: South Asian studies : futures past; title: Franz Boas and the American university : a personal account; title: Scholars and spies : worldly knowledge and the predicament of the university; title: The opening of the American mind.