Anthropology, Colonial Policy and the Decline of French Empire in Africa
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2019
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781788315203
Subjects: Imperialism; Nationalism, france; France, colonies, africa; Africa, colonization; France, history, third republic, 1870-1940
Description: "In this influential new study, historian Douglas W. Leonard examines the political and intellectual repercussions of French efforts to understand and to dominate colonial Africa through the use of anthropology. From General Louis Faidherbe in the 1840s to politician Jacques Soustelle and sociologist Pierre Bourdieu in the 1950s, these French thinkers sowed the seeds of colonial destruction."--