Engaging Colonial Knowledge: Reading European Archives in World History (Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies)

Presenting a set of rich case-studies which demonstrate novel and productive approaches to the study of colonial knowledge, this volume covers British, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish colonial encounters in Africa, Asia, America and the Pacific, from the sixteenth to the twentieth century. 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 Introduction : engaging colonial knowledge / Ricardo Roque and Kim A. Wagner -- "In cold blood" : hierarchies of credibility and the politics of colonial narratives / Ann Laura Stoler -- North Indian lives in the archives of the colonial state / Leigh Denault -- Reading farm and forest : colonial forest science and policy in southern Nigeria / Pauline von Hellermann -- Insights from the "ancient word" : the use of colonial sources in the study of Aztec society / Caroline Dodds Pennock -- "In unrestrained conversation" : approvers and the colonial ethnography of crime in nineteenth-century India / Kim A. Wagner -- From civil servant to little king : an indigenous construction of colonial authority in early nineteenth-century south India / Niels Brimnes -- French anthropology and the Durkheimians in colonial Indochina / Susan Bayly -- Treachery and ethnicity in Portuguese representations of Sri Lanka / Alan Strathern -- William hodges as anthropologist and historian / Nicholas Thomas -- Entangled with otherness : military ethnographies of headhunting in East Timor / Ricardo Roque -- "What do you really want in German East Africa, Herr Professor?" : counterinsurgency and the science effect in colonial Tanzania / Andrew Zimmerman