: colonial power, cultural knowledge, and Islam in Algeria, 1870-1914
First Statement of Responsibility
/ George R. Trumbull IV.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
; New York
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
,2009.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xvii, 309 p.
Other Physical Details
: ill., maps
Dimensions
; 24 cm.
SERIES
Series Title
Critical perspectives on empire
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.