An empire of facts : colonial power, cultural knowledge, and Islam in Algeria, 1870-1914 / George R. Trumbull IV.

By: Trumbull, George R, 1977-Series: Critical perspectives on empirePublication details: Cambridge, UK. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009Description: xvii, 309 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN: 9780521734349Subject(s): 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 -- AlgeriaDDC classification:
Contents:
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.
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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.

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