The family romance of colonial linguistics

Abstract

An earlicr vcrsion of this paper was presentcd at the annual meeting of thc Amcrican Anthropological Association, November 19, 1993, in a scssion on "Constructing l-anguages and Publics: Formative Moments in Rcprcscntation."Rcsearch funding was providcd through a Fellowship from thc National Endowmcnt for the Humanitics.Thanks arc duc also to thc participants in the session, to the Ccntcr for Transcultural Studics (in onc of whosc Working Groups these ideas were devclopcd), and especially 1() comments from Kathryn Woolard and Susan Gal. 2 Freucl's notion hcre is that the imaginary family is more emotionally satisfying, anrl more socially important, than the child's actual parcnts are.See Freud (1959), "Family romances."3 Hunt actually examincs many kincls of tcxts, espccially works of fiction, in adclition to texts with explicitly political themes.

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