Trumbull, George R.,  1977- <br/><br/>
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 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780521734349 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2009028173 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Islam--Public opinion--History<br/>Ethnology--Political aspects--History--France<br/>Islam--Historiography--Algeria<br/>Political culture--Historiography--Algeria
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Algeria--Foreign public opinion, French.<br/>Algeria--Colonial influence--Historiography<br/>Algeria--Ethnic relations--Historiography<br/> France--Relations--Historiography--Algeria
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