Engaging Colonial Knowledge: Reading European Archives in World History

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Introduction: Engaging Colonial Knowledge....Pages 1-32
Front Matter....Pages 33-33
‘In Cold Blood’: Hierarchies of Credibility and the Politics of Colonial Narratives....Pages 35-66
North Indian Lives in the Archives of the Colonial State....Pages 67-88
Reading Farm and Forest: Colonial Forest Science and Policy in Southern Nigeria....Pages 89-114
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
Insights from the ‘Ancient Word’: The Use of Colonial Sources in the Study of Aztec Society....Pages 115-134
‘In Unrestrained Conversation’: Approvers and the Colonial Ethnography of Crime in Nineteenth-Century India....Pages 135-162
From Civil Servant to Little King: An Indigenous Construction of Colonial Authority in Early Nineteenth-Century South India....Pages 163-183
French Anthropology and the Durkheimians in Colonial Indochina....Pages 184-213
Front Matter....Pages 215-215
Treachery and Ethnicity in Portuguese Representations of Sri Lanka....Pages 217-234
William Hodges As Anthropologist and Historian....Pages 235-253
Entangled with Otherness: Military Ethnographies of Headhunting in East Timor....Pages 254-278
‘What Do You Really Want in German East Africa, Herr Professor?’ Counterinsurgency and the Science Effect in Colonial Tanzania....Pages 279-300
Back Matter....Pages 301-306