Colonial Subjects
Subtitle: Essays on the Practical History of Anthropology
Contributors: Peter Pels (Editor); Oscar Salemink (Editor)
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: November 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9780472110179
Subjects: Sociology, Social Studies; History; Ethnology; Ethnology And Ethnography; Political Anthropology; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; General; Sociology; Field work; Anthropology - General; Sociology - General; Anthropology - Cultural; Colonies; Developing countries; Europe
Description: "The essays in this volume share the assumption that "ethnography" is a broader field of practice out of which and alongside which anthropology attempted to distinguish itself as a scientific discipline. They explore a variety of situations in colonial South and Southeast Asia and Africa and in the treatment of the indigenous inhabitants of North America and Australia to provide genealogies of present-day anthropological practices, tracing them back to the subjects of colonial ethnography.".

"This book introduces into the history of anthropology many of the insights developed in recent studies in history, cultural studies, and the anthropology of colonialism. It can serve as a course book in the history of anthropology and the anthropology of colonialism, while at the same time addressing a much larger audience of students of colonial history, of the history of science and modernity, and of globalization."--BOOK JACKET.