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

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction: Historical Anthropology and Its Vicissitudes 1
5. Part 1 Ethnography and the Archive
6. Annals of the Archive: Ethnographic Notes on the Sources of History 47
7. Ethnographic Representation, Statistics, and Modern Power 66
8. 2 Colonial Anxieties
9. New Christians and New World Fears in Seventeenth- Century Peru 95
10. The Kabyle Myth: Colonization and the Production of Ethnicity 122
11. Developing Historical Negatives: Race and the (Modernist) Visions of a Colonial State 156
12. 3 Marginal Contexts
13. Culture on the Edges: Caribbean Creolization in Historical Context 189
14. Race, Gender, and Historical Narrative in the Reconstruction of a Nation: Remembering and Forgetting the American Civil War 211
15. 4 Archaeologies of the Fantastic
16. Fantastic Community 233
17. Occult Economies and the Violence of Abstraction: Notes from the South African Postcolony 267
18. Contributors 303
19. Index 305