Trumbull, George R., 1977-
An empire of facts : colonial power, cultural knowledge, and Islam in Algeria, 1870-1914 / George R. Trumbull IV. - Cambridge, UK. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009 - xvii, 309 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm - Critical perspectives on empire .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : "sa vie étrange autour de nous" -- Writing like a state : the question of anthropology and the colonial origins of politicized ethnography -- The lies that empire tells itself when times are easy -- "Au coin des rues Diderot et Moïse" : the ethnography of the esoteric and the politics of religious sociability -- "Les mauvais génies dans tous les contes de fées" : the ethnography of popular religion and the fashioning of Algerian primitivism -- "Have you need of a model, he will furnish one on command " : the gendering of morality and the production of difference in colonial ethnography -- Discipline and publish : militant ethnography and crimes against culture.
9780521734349
2009028173
Islam--Public opinion--History
Ethnology--Political aspects--History--France
Islam--Historiography--Algeria
Political culture--Historiography--Algeria
Algeria--Foreign public opinion, French.
Algeria--Colonial influence--Historiography
Algeria--Ethnic relations--Historiography
France--Relations--Historiography--Algeria
An empire of facts : colonial power, cultural knowledge, and Islam in Algeria, 1870-1914 / George R. Trumbull IV. - Cambridge, UK. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009 - xvii, 309 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm - Critical perspectives on empire .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction : "sa vie étrange autour de nous" -- Writing like a state : the question of anthropology and the colonial origins of politicized ethnography -- The lies that empire tells itself when times are easy -- "Au coin des rues Diderot et Moïse" : the ethnography of the esoteric and the politics of religious sociability -- "Les mauvais génies dans tous les contes de fées" : the ethnography of popular religion and the fashioning of Algerian primitivism -- "Have you need of a model, he will furnish one on command " : the gendering of morality and the production of difference in colonial ethnography -- Discipline and publish : militant ethnography and crimes against culture.
9780521734349
2009028173
Islam--Public opinion--History
Ethnology--Political aspects--History--France
Islam--Historiography--Algeria
Political culture--Historiography--Algeria
Algeria--Foreign public opinion, French.
Algeria--Colonial influence--Historiography
Algeria--Ethnic relations--Historiography
France--Relations--Historiography--Algeria