Empire of Facts Colonial Power, Cultural Knowledge and Islam in Algeria, 1870-1914

Name: Empire of Facts Colonial Power, Cultural Knowledge and Islam in Algeria, 1870-1914
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ISBN: 9780521734349

ISBN-10: 0521734347

ISBN-13: 9780521734349

Edition: 2009

Authors: George R. Trumbull IV

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List price: $57.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/19/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

George R. Trumbull IV is Assistant Professor of History at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire.



List of illustrations


Acknowledgments


Maps


Introduction: "sa vie ï¿½trange autour de nous"



Writing like a state: the question of anthropology and the colonial origins of politicized ethnography



The lies that empire tells itself when times are easy



"Au coin des rues Diderot et Moï¿½se": the ethnography of the esoteric and the politics of religious sociability



"Les mauvais gï¿½nies dans tous les contes de fï¿½es": the ethnography of popular religion and the fashioning of Algerian primitivism



"Have you need of a model, he will furnish one on command": the gendering of morality and the production of difference in colonial ethnography



Discipline and publish: militant ethnography and crimes against culture


Conclusion


Bibliography


Index