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Author:

Trumbull, George R., 1977-

Title:

An empire of facts : colonial power, cultural knowledge, and Islam in Algeria, 1870-1914 / George R. Trumbull IV.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

xvii, 309 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Algeria--Foreign public opinion, French.
Islam--History.--History.
Public opinion--France--History.
Ethnology--History.--France--History.
Islam--Algeria--Historiography.
Algeria--Historiography.--Historiography.
Algeria--Historiography.--Historiography.
Political culture--Algeria--Historiography.
Algeria--Historiography.--France--Historiography.
France--Historiography.--Algeria--Historiography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction : "sa vie ©♭trange 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 Mo©se" : the ethnography of the esoteric and the politics of religious sociability -- "Les mauvais g©♭nies dans tous les contes de f©♭es" : 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.

Series:

Critical perspectives on empire

ISBN:

0521734347 (pbk.)
9780521734349 (pbk.)
0521516544 (hbk.)
9780521516549 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)351325471

LCCN:

2009028173

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)