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