Colonial archives and the arts of governance
Abstract
Anthropologists engaged in post-colonial studies are increasingly adopting an historical perspective and using archives. Yet their archival activity tends to remain more an extractive than an ethnographic one. Documents are thus still invoked piecemeal to confirm the colonial invention of certain practices or to underscore cultural claims, silent. Yet such mining of thecontent of government commissions, reports, and other archival sources rarely...
Paper Details
Title
Colonial archives and the arts of governance
Published Date
Mar 1, 2002
Journal
Volume
2
Issue
1-2
Pages
87 - 109
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