“The Good-Hearted Portuguese People”: Anthropology of Nation, Anthropology of Empire / Omar Ribeiro Thomaz 58 Rationalizing Colonial Domination? Anthropology and Native Policy in French-Ruled Africa / Benoît de L’Estoile 30 Introduction: Anthropology and the Government of “Natives,” a Comparative Approach / Benoît de L’Estoile, Federico Neiburg, and Lygia Sigaud 1 It is also a valuable critical supplement to state theory.” - Carol Greenhouse, Princeton University and coeditor of Ethnography in Unstable Places: Everyday Lives in Contexts of Dramatic Political Change “ 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. 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, New York University and author of Colonialism in Question: Theory, Knowledge, History “ 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. Anthropologists and historians interested in the history of the discipline, especially outside its European and North American centres, in colonial and postcolonial studies, and in Latin American studies, will find it a worthwhile read." - Amy Ninetto, Anthropological Forum "This volume makes a valuable contribution to the still emerging history of anthropology's entanglement with colonialism. It is a necessary reference for those interested in the intellectual and political history of our discipline from an anthropological perspective, for those interested in the anthropology of knowledge, and for those engaged in the critique of the postcolonial forms of neo-colonialism.” - Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz, Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology Its broad range highlights the international connections between empires and nation-states as well as between imperial and national anthropologies. “his volume is an important contribution to contemporary debates over the part anthropology plays in the public sphere of nation-states. “epresents a rich source of information for those interested in the transformation of anthropology, its ethical and political dimensions and the role anthropology played in the construction of states.” - Ovidiu Cristian Norocel, Social Anthropology ![]() “Even if specialists in these areas will have already read many of the essays in their original form, the collection is a useful addition to the scholarship on the history of anthropology.” - H. Such a reflexive endeavor is an essential contribution to a critical anthropological understanding of a changing world.Ĭontributors: 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 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. The contributors-social and cultural anthropologists from the Americas and Europe-report on both historical and contemporary processes. 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. 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. Labor and Working-Class History AssociationĮmpires, 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. ![]()
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