Engaging colonial knowledge
Subtitle: reading European archives in world history
By: edited by Ricardo Roque, Kim A. Wagner
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230241985
Subjects: Historiography; Colonies; History; Congresses; Archival resources
Notes: Includes papers originally presented at the workshop "Beyond Deconstruction : Engaging Colonial Knowledge", held at King's College, Cambridge, in Sept. 2006, as well as some post-conference papers.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : engaging colonial knowledge / Ricardo Roque and Kim A. Wagner; title: "In cold blood" : hierarchies of credibility and the politics of colonial narratives / Ann Laura Stoler; title: North Indian lives in the archives of the colonial state / Leigh Denault; title: Reading farm and forest : colonial forest science and policy in southern Nigeria / Pauline von Hellermann; title: Insights from the "ancient word" : the use of colonial sources in the study of Aztec society / Caroline Dodds Pennock; title: "In unrestrained conversation" : approvers and the colonial ethnography of crime in nineteenth-century India / Kim A. Wagner; title: From civil servant to little king : an indigenous construction of colonial authority in early nineteenth-century south India / Niels Brimnes; title: French anthropology and the Durkheimians in colonial Indochina / Susan Bayly; title: Treachery and ethnicity in Portuguese representations of Sri Lanka / Alan Strathern; title: William hodges as anthropologist and historian / Nicholas Thomas; title: Entangled with otherness : military ethnographies of headhunting in East Timor / Ricardo Roque; title: "What do you really want in German East Africa, Herr Professor?" : counterinsurgency and the science effect in colonial Tanzania / Andrew Zimmerman.