An empire of facts
Subtitle: colonial power, cultural knowledge, and Islam in Algeria, 1870-1914
By: George R. Trumbull IV.
Series: Critical perspectives on empire
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
ISBN-13: 9780521516549; 9780521734349
Subjects: Islam -- Public opinion -- History; Public opinion -- France -- History; Ethnology -- Political aspects -- France -- History; Islam -- Algeria -- Historiography; Political culture -- Algeria -- Historiography; Algeria -- Foreign public opinion, French; Algeria -- Colonial influence -- Historiography; Algeria -- Ethnic relations -- Historiography; Algeria -- Relations -- France -- Historiography; France -- Relations -- Algeria -- Historiography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : "sa vie étrange autour de nous"; title: Writing like a state : the question of anthropology and the colonial origins of politicized ethnography; title: The lies that empire tells itself when times are easy; title: "Au coin des rues Diderot et Moïse" : the ethnography of the esoteric and the politics of religious sociability; title: "Les mauvais génies dans tous les contes de fées" : the ethnography of popular religion and the fashioning of Algerian primitivism; title: "Have you need of a model, he will furnish one on command " : the gendering of morality and the production of difference in colonial ethnography; title: Discipline and publish : militant ethnography and crimes against culture.