From the Margins Historical Anthropology and Its Futures

Name: From the Margins Historical Anthropology and Its Futures
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ISBN: 9780822328889

ISBN-10: 0822328887

ISBN-13: 9780822328889

Edition: 2002

Authors: Brian Keith Axel, Talal Asad, Bernard Cohn, Nicholas Dirks, Paul A. Silverstein

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Contributors to this volume tackle such topics as the paradoxical nature of American Civil War monuments, the figure of the 'New Christian' in early 17th-century Peru, the implications of statistics for ethnography, and contemporary South Africa's 'occult economies'.

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List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 6/7/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 5.94" wide x 9.13" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: Historical Anthropology and Its Vicissitudes




Ethnography and the Archive


Annals of the Archive: Ethnographic Notes on the Sources of History



Ethnographic Representation, Statistics, and Modern Power




Colonial Anxieties


New Christians and New world Fears in Seventeenth-Century Peru



The Kabyle Myth: Colonization and the Production of Ethnicity



Developing Historical Negatives: Race and the (Modernist) Visions of a Colonial State




Marginal Contexts


Culture on the Edges: Caribbean Creolization in Historical Context



Race, Gender, and Historical Narrative in the Reconstruction of a Nation: Remembering and Forgetting the American Civil War




Archaeologies of the Fantastic


Fantastic Community



Occult Economies and the Violence of Abstraction: Notes from the South African Postcolony



Contributors


Index