Tilley / Gordon Ordering Africa

Anthropology, European imperialism and the politics of knowledge
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1871-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 67, 416 Seiten, Web PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Studies in Imperialism

provides the first comparative overview of the role of anthropology in colonial Africa. With essays exploring metropolitan research institutes, Africans as ethnographers and the transnational features of knowledge production, this volume both consolidates and extends a range of new research questions focusing on the politics of imperial knowledge.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tilley, Helen

Gordon, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction Helen Tilley, “Africa, Imperialism, and Anthropology”

I. Metropolitan Agendas & Institutions

1. Emmanuelle Sibeud, “The Elusive Bureau of Colonial Ethnography: African Experience and Ethnographic Terrain in France, 1906-1930” 67

2. Holger Stoecker, “The Advancement of African Studies by the German Research Foundation (GRF), 1920-1945” 90

3. Benoît de l’Estoile, “Internationalization and Scientific Nationalism: the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures (IIALC) Between the Wars” 130

II. African Ethnographers, Self-Expression, and Modernity

4. Sara Pugach, “Of Conjunctions, Comportment, and Clothing: The Place of African Teaching Assistants at Hamburg's Colonial Institute, 1909-1919” 153

5. Jean-Hervé Jezequel, “Voices of Their Own?: African Participation in the Production of Colonial Knowledge in French West Africa, 1900-1950” 190

6. Bruce Berman and John Lonsdale, “Custom, Modernity and the Search for Kihooto: Kenyatta, Malinowski, and the Making of Facing Mount Kenya” 231

III. Salvage Anthropology, Primordial Imagination, & ‘Dying Races’

7. Patrick Harries, “From the Alps to Africa: Swiss Missionaries and the Rise of Anthropology” 264

8. John Cinnamon, “Colonial Anthropologies and the Primordial Imagination in Equatorial Africa” 296

9. Nancy Hunt, “Colonial Medical Anthropology and the Making of the Central African Infertility Belt” 335

IV. Colonial States, Applied Ethnography, and Policy

10. Barbara Sòrgoni, “The Scripts of Alberto Pollera, an Italian officer in Colonial Eritrea: Administration, Ethnography and Gender” 381

11. Douglas Johnson, “From Political Intelligence to Colonial Anthropology: Ethnography in the Sudan Intelligence Reports and Sudan Notes and Records” 415

12. Gary Wilder, “Colonial Ethnology and Political Rationality in French West Africa” 451

Über Autor(innen)

Tilley Helen:
Helen L. Tilley is Assistant Professor in the History Department at Princeton University with affiliations to the Programs in the History of Science and African Studies. She is currently completing her first book, “Africa as a Living Laboratory: Science, NatGordon Robert:
Robert Gordon is a Professor of anthropology at the University of Vermont and a Research Affiliate at Free State University. His most recent book is “Tarzan was an Expatriate and other tales in the anthropology of adventure” edited with Luis Vivanco.Helen Tilley is Assistant Professor in the History Department at Princeton University with affiliations to the Programs in the History of Science and African Studies. Robert Gordon is a Professor of anthropology at the University of Vermont and a Research Affiliate at Free State University. His most recent book is “Tarzan was an Expatriate and other tales in the anthropology of adventure” edited with Luis Vivanco