Article ID: CBB001201581

Introduction: Anthropology, Collecting and Colonial Governmentalities (2014)

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Bennett, Tony (Author)
Dibley, Ben (Author)
Harrison, Rodney (Author)


History and Anthropology
Volume: 25
Pages: 137--149


Publication Date: 2014
Edition Details: Introduction to the special issue: “Anthropology, Collecting and Colonial Governmentalities”.
Language: English

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

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Description On different forms of knowledge associated with collecting in anthropology, archaeology, folklore studies, and demography in late 18th and early 20th-century. Contents:


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Article Edwards, Elizabeth (2014) Photographic Uncertainties: Between Evidence and Reassurance. History and Anthropology (p. 171). unapi

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). unapi

Article Harrison, Rodney (2014) Observing, Collecting and Governing “Ourselves” and “Others”: Mass-Observation's Fieldwork Agencements. History and Anthropology (p. 227). unapi

Article Rowse, Tim (2014) “Rooted in Demographic Reality”: The Contribution of New World Censuses to Indigenous Survival. History and Anthropology (p. 246). unapi

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). unapi

Article Bennett, Tony (2014) Liberal Government and the Practical History of Anthropology. History and Anthropology (p. 150). unapi

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). unapi

Article Dibley, Ben (2014) Assembling an Anthropological Actor: Anthropological Assemblage and Colonial Government in Papua. History and Anthropology (p. 263). unapi

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). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Rowse, Tim
McAleer, John
Woods, Rebecca J. H.
Waxman, Alan
Shellam, Tiffany
Petch, Alison
Concepts
Science and culture
Museums
Anthropology
Colonialism
Collectors and collecting
Science and politics
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
18th century
Places
New Zealand
Great Britain
Australia
North America
Egypt
Africa
Institutions
Madras Museum
Pitt Rivers Museum (University of Oxford)
British Museum
Smithsonian Institution
Oxford University
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