Chapter 2. Africa in History: The End of Universal Narratives

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction: After Colonialism 3
5. PART ONE: COLONIALISM AND THE DISCIPLINES
6. Chapter 1. Secular Interpretation, the Geographical Element, and the Methodology of Imperialism 21
7. Chapter 2. Africa in History: The End of Universal Narratives 40
8. Chapter 3. Haiti, History, and the Gods 66
9. Chapter 4. Why Not Tourist Art? Significant Silences in Native American Museum Representations 98
10. PART TWO: COLONIALISMAND CULTURAL DIFFERENCE
11. Chapter 5. The Effacement of Difference: Colonialism and the Origins of Nationalism in Diderot and Herder 129
12. Chapter 6. Retribution and Remorse: The Interaction between the Administration and the Protestant Mission in Early Colonial Formosa 153
13. Chapter 7. Coping with (Civil) Death: The Christian Convert’s Rights of Passage in Colonial India 183
14. Chapter 8. Exclusion and Solidarity: Labor Zionism and Arab Workers in Palestine, 1897–1929 211
15. Chapter 9. The Postcolonization of the (Latin) American Experience: A Reconsideration of “Colonialism,” “Postcolonialism,” and “Mestizaje” 241
16. PART THREE: COLONIAL DISCOURSE AND ITS DISPLACEMENTS
17. Chapter 10. Becoming Indian in the Central Andes of Seventeenth-Century Peru 279
18. Chapter 11. Ethnographic Travesties: Colonial Realism, French Feminism, and the Case of Elissa Rhaïs 299
19. Chapter 12. In a Spirit of Calm Violence 326
20. Notes on the Contributors 345
21. Index 347