Bennett, Tony (Author)
Dibley, Ben (Author)
Harrison, Rodney (Author)
This special issue contributes to an emerging literature on the materialities of colonial government by considering the changing relations between practices of data collecting, styles of anthropological knowing and modes of governing which target the conduct of colonial and metropolitan populations. Drawing on comparative studies from Australia; the Australian administered territory of Papua; France; French Indo-China; New Zealand; North America and the UK; the papers consider the implications of different forms of knowledge associated with practices of collecting---anthropology, archaeology, folklore studies, demography---in apparatuses of rule in various late nineteenth and early twentieth-century contexts. This introduction outlines the rationale for the volume and elaborates the concept of anthropological assemblage which helps focus the authors' explorations of the socio-technical agencements which connected museum, field, metropolis and colony during this period. In doing so, it points towards a series of broader themes---the relationship between pastoral power and ethnographic expertise; the Antipodean career of the Americanist culture concept; and the role of colonial centres of calculation in the circulation of knowledge, practices of collecting and regimes of governing---which suggest productive future lines of inquiry for practical histories of anthropology
...MoreDescription On different forms of knowledge associated with collecting in anthropology, archaeology, folklore studies, and demography in late 18th and early 20th-century. Contents:
Article Edwards, Elizabeth (2014) Photographic Uncertainties: Between Evidence and Reassurance. History and Anthropology (p. 171).
Article Dias, Nélia (2014) Rivet's Mission in Colonial Indochina (1931--1932) or the Failure to Create an Ethnographic Museum. History and Anthropology (p. 189).
Article Harrison, Rodney (2014) Observing, Collecting and Governing “Ourselves” and “Others”: Mass-Observation's Fieldwork Agencements. History and Anthropology (p. 227).
Article Rowse, Tim (2014) “Rooted in Demographic Reality”: The Contribution of New World Censuses to Indigenous Survival. History and Anthropology (p. 246).
Article McCarthy, Conal (2014) “Empirical Anthropologists Advocating Cultural Adjustments”: The Anthropological Governance of pirana Ngata and the Native Affairs Department. History and Anthropology (p. 280).
Article Bennett, Tony (2014) Liberal Government and the Practical History of Anthropology. History and Anthropology (p. 150).
Article Cameron, Fiona Ruth (2014) From “Dead Things” to Immutable, Combinable Mobiles: H.D. Skinner, the Otago Museum and University and the Governance of Māori Populations. History and Anthropology (p. 208).
Article Dibley, Ben (2014) Assembling an Anthropological Actor: Anthropological Assemblage and Colonial Government in Papua. History and Anthropology (p. 263).
Article Batty, Philip (2014) The Tywerrenge as an Artefact of Rule: The (Post) Colonial Life of a Secret/Sacred Aboriginal Object. History and Anthropology (p. 296).
Book
Longair, Sarah;
McAleer, John;
(2012)
Curating Empire: Museums and the British Imperial Experience
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Article
Cameron, Fiona Ruth;
(2014)
From “Dead Things” to Immutable, Combinable Mobiles: H.D. Skinner, the Otago Museum and University and the Governance of Māori Populations
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Article
Perry, Sara;
Challis, Debbie;
(2013)
Flinders Petrie and the Curation of Heads
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Article
Harrison, Rodney;
(2014)
Observing, Collecting and Governing “Ourselves” and “Others”: Mass-Observation's Fieldwork Agencements
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Article
Rowse, Tim;
(2014)
“Rooted in Demographic Reality”: The Contribution of New World Censuses to Indigenous Survival
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Article
Rowse, Tim;
Shellam, Tiffany;
(2013)
The Colonial Emergence of a Statistical Imaginary
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Article
McCarthy, Conal;
(2014)
“Empirical Anthropologists Advocating Cultural Adjustments”: The Anthropological Governance of pirana Ngata and the Native Affairs Department
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Book
Gosden, Chris;
Larson, Frances;
Petch, Alison;
(2007)
Knowing Things: Exploring the Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum, 1884--1945
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Book
Beattie, James;
(2011)
Empire and Environmental Anxiety: Health, Science, Art, and Conservation in South Asia and Australasia, 1800--1920
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Article
Luckhurst, Roger;
(2012)
Science versus Rumour: Artefaction and Counter-Narrative in the Egyptian Rooms of the British Museum
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Chapter
Nair, Savithri Preetha;
(2012)
Edgar Thurston at the Madras Museum (1885--1909): The Multiple Careers of a Colonial Museum Curator
(/isis/citation/CBB001201473/)
Article
Dibley, Ben;
(2014)
Assembling an Anthropological Actor: Anthropological Assemblage and Colonial Government in Papua
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Book
Mees, Bernard;
(2008)
The Science of the Swastika
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Thesis
Woods, Rebecca J. H.;
(2013)
The Herds Shot Round the World: Native Breeds and the British Empire, 1800--1900
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Chapter
McKhann, Charles F.;
Waxman, Alan;
(2011)
David Crockett Graham: American Missionary and Scientist in Sichuan, 1911--1948
(/isis/citation/CBB001214677/)
Book
Harrison, Simon;
(2012)
Dark Trophies: Hunting and the Enemy Body in Modern War
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Chapter
McAleer, John;
(2012)
The Case of Thomas Baines, Curator-Explorer Extraordinaire, and the Display of Africa in Nineteenth-Century Norfolk
(/isis/citation/CBB001201465/)
Book
El Shakry, Omnia S.;
(2007)
The Great Social Laboratory: Subjects of Knowledge in Colonial and Postcolonial Egypt
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Article
Batty, Philip;
(2014)
The Tywerrenge as an Artefact of Rule: The (Post) Colonial Life of a Secret/Sacred Aboriginal Object
(/isis/citation/CBB001201590/)
Article
Fein, Julia;
(2013)
Talking Rocks in the Irkutsk Museum: Networks of Science in Late Imperial Siberia
(/isis/citation/CBB001201407/)
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