TY  - BOOK
AU  - Trumbull,George R.
TI  - An empire of facts: colonial power, cultural knowledge, and Islam in Algeria, 1870-1914 
SN  - 9780521734349
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cambridge, UK., New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Islam
KW  - Public opinion
KW  - History
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - France
KW  - Historiography
KW  - Algeria
KW  - Political culture
KW  - Foreign public opinion, French
KW  - Colonial influence
KW  - Ethnic relations
KW  -  France
KW  - Relations
N1  - 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
ER  -