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Empires, Nations, and Natives
Anthropology and State-Making
Edited by Benoît de L'Estoile, Federico Neiburg and Lygia Sigaud
"Empires, Nations, and Natives reflects an original conception of the ethnography of politics, attending imaginatively to the ethnographic and theoretical contexts in which anthropology sometimes enters (and sometimes eludes) the fields of political identity, agency, and change. It is also a valuable critical supplement to state theory."-Carol Greenhouse, Professor of Anthropology, Princeton University, and coeditor of Ethnography in Unstable Places: Everyday Lives in Contexts of Dramatic Political Change
"Empires, Nations, and Natives is a refreshing collection, notable for the quality and depth of research into different 'national anthropologies' in Europe, the Americas, and South Africa, and for the ability of the authors and editors to bring out the linkages among such intellectual traditions. The book provokes important reflections on questions of empire, colonialism, cultural difference, democratic government, and the possibilities and constraints of the nation-state."-Frederick Cooper, Professor of History, New York University, and author of Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History
Empires, Nations, and Natives is a groundbreaking comparative analysis of the interplay between the practice of anthropology and the politics of empires and nation-states in the colonial and postcolonial worlds. It brings together essays that demonstrate how the production of social-science knowledge about the "other" has been inextricably linked to the crafting of government policies. Subverting established boundaries between national and imperial anthropologies, the contributors explore the role of anthropology in the shifting categorizations of race in southern Africa, the identification of Indians in Brazil, the implementation of development plans in Africa and Latin America, the construction of Mexican and Portuguese nationalism, the genesis of "national character" studies in the United States during World War II, the modernizing efforts of the French colonial administration in Africa, and postcolonial architecture.
The contributors-social and cultural anthropologists from the Americas and Europe-report on both historical and contemporary processes. Moving beyond controversies that cast the relationship between scholarship and politics in binary terms of complicity or autonomy, they bring into focus a dynamic process in which states, anthropological knowledge, and population groups themselves are mutually constructed. Such a reflexive endeavor is an essential contribution to a critical anthropological understanding of a changing world
Contributors: Alban Bensa, Marcio Goldman, Adam Kuper, Benoît de L'Estoile, Claudio Lomnitz, David Mills, Federico Neiburg, João Pacheco de Oliveira, Jorge Pantaleón, Omar Ribeiro Thomaz, Lygia Sigaud, Antonio Carlos de Souza Lima, Florence Weber
Benoåt de L'Estoile teaches social anthropology at the Ecole Normale Superieure and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, both in Paris. Federico Neiburg and Lygia Sigaud teach social anthropology at the Museu Nacional, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
CONTENTS
1 Benoît de L'Estoile, Federico Neiburg, and Lygia Sigaud
Introduction: Anthropology and the Government of "Natives," a Comparative Approach
30 Benoît de L'Estoile
Rationalizing Colonial Domination? Anthropology and Native Policy in French-Ruled Africa
58 Omar Ribeiro Thomaz
"The Good-Hearted Portuguese People": Anthropology of Nation, Anthropology of Empire
88 Florence Weber
Vichy France and the End of Scientific Folklore (1937-1954)
108 Federico Neiburg and Marcio Goldman
From Nation to Empire: War and National Character Studies in the United States
135 David Mills
Anthropology at the End of Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Colonial Social Sciences Research Council, 1944-1962
167 Claudio Lomnitz
Bordering on Anthropology: Dialectics of a National Tradition in Mexico
197 Antonio Carlos de Souza Lima
Indigenism in Brazil: The International Migration of State Policies
223 João Pacheco de Oliveira
The Anthropologist as Expert: Brazilian Ethnology between Indianism and Indigenism
248 Jorge F. Pantaleón
Anthropology, Development, and Nongovernmental Organizations in Latin America
263 Alban Bensa
The Ethnologist and the Architect: A Postcolonial Experiment in the French Pacific
277 Adam Kuper
"Today We Have Naming of Parts": The Work of Anthropologists in Southern Africa
301 References
327 Contributors
331 Index
DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
November 2005
344 pages 11 illus.
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