Colonial Situations
Essays on the Contextualization of Ethnographic Knowledge
George W. Stocking(Editor)
University of Wisconsin Press
Published on 1. January 1992
Book
Hardback
364 pages
978-0-299-13120-3 (ISBN)
Description
This volume is an effort to initiate a critical historical consideration of the varying "colonial situations" in which (and out of which) ethnographic knowledge essential to anthropology has been produced. The essays comment on ethnographic work from the middle of the 19th century to nearly the end of the 20th, in regions from Oceania through southeast Asia, the Andaman Islands, and southern Africa to North and South America. The "colonial situations" also cover a broad range, from first contact through the establishment of colonial power, from District Officer administrations through white settler regimes, from internal colonialism to international mandates, from early "pacification" to wars of colonial liberation, from the expropriation of land to the defence of ecology. The motivations and responses of the anthropologists discussed include the romantic resistance of Maclay and the complicity of Kubary in early colonialism; Malinowski's salesmanship of academic anthropology; Speck's advocacy of Indian land rights; Schneider's grappling with the ambiguities of rapport; and Turner's facilitation of Kaiapo cinematic activism.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Wisconsin
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
23 half-tones, maps
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 154 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-299-13120-3 (9780299131203)
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