An Empire of Facts: Colonial Power, Cultural Knowledge, and Islam in Algeria, 1870–1914

Abstract

Introduction: 'Sa Vie Etrange Autour de Nous' 1. Writing like a state: the question of anthropology and the colonial origins of politicized ethnography 2. The lies that empire tells itself when times are easy 3. 'Au Coin des Rues Diderot et Moise': the ethnography of the esoteric and the politics of religious sociability 4. 'Les Mauvais Genies Dans Tous les Contes de Fees': the ethnography of popular religion and the fashioning of Algerian primitivism 5. 'Have You Need of a Model, He Will Furnish One on Command': the gendering of morality and the production of difference in colonial ethnography 6. Discipline and publish: militant ethnography and crimes against culture Conclusion.

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