Engaging colonial knowledge : reading European archives in world history

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Illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction: Engaging Colonial Knowledge R.Roque & K.A.Wagner PART I: EPISTEMIC FISSURES 'In Cold Blood': Hierarchies of Credibility and the Politics of Colonial Narratives A.L.Stoler North Indian Lives in the Archives of the Colonial State L.Denault Reading Farm and Forest: Colonial Forest Science and Policy in Southern Nigeria P.von Hellermann PART II: INDIGENOUS VOICES IN COLONIAL RECORDS Insights from the 'Ancient Word': The Use of Colonial Sources in the Study of Aztec Society C.Dodds Pennock 'In unrestrained conversation': Approvers and the Colonial Ethnography of Crime in Nineteenth-Century India K.A.Wagner From Civil Servant to Little King: an Indigenous Construction of Colonial Authority in Early Nineteenth-century South India N.Brimnes French Anthropology and the Durkheimians in Colonial Indochina S.Bayly PART III: ARCHIVES OF ENTANGLEMENT Treachery and Ethnicity in Portuguese Representations of Sri Lanka A.Strathern William Hodges as Anthropologist and Historian N.Thomas Entangled with Otherness: Military Ethnographies of Headhunting in East Timor R.Roque 'What do you Really Want in German East Africa, Herr Professor?' Counterinsurgency and the Science Effect in Colonial Tanzania A.Zimmerman Endnotes

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