: colonial power, cultural knowledge, and Islam in Algeria, 1870-1914
/ George R. Trumbull IV.
; 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.