Empire of Facts - Colonial Power, Cultural Knowledge, and Islam in Algeria, 18701914

Informationen zum Autor George R. Trumbull IV is Assistant Professor of History at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire. Klappentext A fascinating account of the formation of French conceptions of Islam in France's largest and most important colony. Zusammenfassung A fascinating account of the formation of French conceptions of Islam in Algeria. George Trumbull places narratives by travellers! bureaucrats! scholars and writers at the heart of the production of colonial knowledge and misconceptions about Islam that determined the imperial cultural politics of Algeria and its interactions with republican France. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 Moïse': the ethnography of the esoteric and the politics of religious sociability; 4. 'Les Mauvais Génies Dans Tous les Contes de Fées': 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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• Authors: George R. Trumbull, George R Trumbull IV, George R. Trumbull IV, George R. (Dartmouth College Trumbull IV
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.11.2009
• EAN: 9780521734349
• ISBN: 978-0-521-73434-9
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Critical Perspectives on Empir; Critical Perspectives on Empire; Critical Perspectives on Empir
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / Middle East / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Islamic Studies, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Middle Eastern history, Algeria, C 1900 - C 1914, c 1900 to c 1909, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities, HISTORY / Islamic