ISBN:
9780231169660
,
9780231169677
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 390 pages
,
1 illustration
,
24 cm
Edition:
Also issued online
Series Statement:
Cultures of history
DDC:
301.0954
Keywords:
Anthropology and history
;
Anthropological archives
;
Education, Higher Philosophy
;
Interdisciplinary research Philosophy
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
Introduction : passage to India -- Annals of the archive : ethnographic notes on the sources of history -- Autobiography of an archive -- Preface to the second edition of the Hollow crown -- Castes of mind -- Ritual and resistance : subversion as a social fact -- The policing of tradition : colonialism and anthropology in southern India -- Imperial sovereignty -- Bringing the company back in : the scandal of early global capitalism -- The idea of empire -- In near ruins -- G.S. Ghurye and the politics of sociological knowledge -- South Asian studies : futures past -- Franz Boas and the American university : a personal account -- Scholars and spies : worldly knowledge and the predicament of the university -- The opening of the American mind.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-372) and index
,
Also issued online.
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