Titlebook: Engaging Colonial Knowledge; Reading European Arc Ricardo Roque (Research Fellow),Kim A. Wagner (Lec Book 2012 Palgrave Macmillan, a divisi

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Entangled with Otherness: Military Ethnographies of Headhunting in East Timore centre of the circle, commences the ., which the Timorese sing only when they have cut heads off. In this chant the chief begins by presenting the head with a thousand apologies for having cut it off; then demonstrates to the head why its decapitation was necessary, but tells it not to worry, beca

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‘What Do You Really Want in German East Africa, ,?’ Counterinsurgency and the Science Effect in Colout how will anthropology be able to assert its much-contested status as a science, when it knows nothing higher and better than simply to bring together bows, arrows, spears, and thousands of other things? This collecting and preserving is really just ... the elementary branch of our work. The other

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Ricardo Roque (Research Fellow),Kim A. Wagner (Lec

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Introduction: Engaging Colonial Knowledgeulated, part of which survives today in archives and libraries around the world. As a legacy of colonization and empirebuilding, the ‘knowledge’ embodied in this diverse material has been identified with projects of imperialist or colonialist domination, and as such simply labelled as ‘colonial’. Th

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‘In Cold Blood’: Hierarchies of Credibility and the Politics of Colonial Narratives colonialism’s archival forms. Reading /along/, rather than /against/ the archival grain, it asks what we might learn about the nature of imperial rule and the dispositions it engendered from the writerly forms through which it was (mis)managed, how attentions were trained, and selectively cast. It

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North Indian Lives in the Archives of the Colonial Statewomen’s lives or the details of everyday household life is scarce and fragmentary, then surely there would be nothing more difficult than searching for physical traces of a vanished world in an archive whose architects professed a policy of indifference to the domestic lives of their subjects. Yet t

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Reading Farm and Forest: Colonial Forest Science and Policy in Southern Nigeriarticular on the impact of farming on forests. On the one hand, foresters repeatedly describe the destruction caused by shifting cultivation, so widely condemned in colonial circles at the time. On the other hand, they also reveal a notable appreciation of forest history and of the potentially positi

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‘In Unrestrained Conversation’: Approvers and the Colonial Ethnography of Crime in Nineteenth-Centur 1836, emphasizing the spontaneity of the exchange and authenticity of the responses. The British believed the Thugs to be a sect of prolific murderers who operated in secret along the highways of the subcontinent, guided by a deadly devotion to Hindu goddess-worship. Ostensibly, the purpose of Pato

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From Civil Servant to Little King: An Indigenous Construction of Colonial Authority in Early Ninetee the rich documentation left behind by the East India Company and the India Office, studies of how knowledge constructed by British administrators, scientist and commentators helped transform Indian society according to the needs of the colonial state abounded. It was shown how new forms of knowledg