Ordering Africa: Anthropology, European Imperialism and the Politics of Knowledge

Ordering Africa: Anthropology, European Imperialism and the Politics of Knowledge
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
2 April 2007
Pages
304
ISBN
9780719062391

Ordering Africa: Anthropology, European Imperialism and the Politics of Knowledge

African research played a major role in transforming the discipline of anthropology in the twentieth century. Ethnographic studies, in turn, had significant effects on the way imperial powers in Africa approached subject peoples. Ordering Africa provides the first comparative history of these processes. With essays exploring metropolitan research institutes, Africans as ethnographers, the transnational features of knowledge production, and the relationship between anthropology and colonial administration, this volume both consolidates and extends a range of new research questions focusing on the politics of imperial knowledge. Specific chapters examine French West Africa, the Belgian and French Congo, the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Italian Northeast Africa, Kenya, and Equatorial Africa (Gabon) as well as developments in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland. This is a major collection of essays that will be welcomed by scholars interested in imperial history and the history of Africa.

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