Ordering Africa

Name: Ordering Africa
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SKU: 9780719082122
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Anthropology, European Imperialism and the Politics of Knowledge

Series: Studies in Imperialism

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Ordering Africa delves into the history and development of administrative systems imposed by European colonial powers across the African continent. The book examines the political, social, and economic impacts these structures had during the colonial period and their lasting legacy on post-colonial Africa. Through a detailed historical lens, the narrative explores the various motivations behind these systems and their implications on African societies.
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Ordering Africa

provides the first comparative overview of the role of anthropology in colonial Africa. With essays exploring metropolitan research institutes, Africans as ethnographers and the transnational features of knowledge production, this volume both consolidates and extends a range of new research questions focusing on the politics of imperial knowledge.

Provides the first comparative overview of the role of anthropology in colonial Africa.

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Ordering Africa provides the first comparative overview of the role of anthropology in colonial Africa. With essays exploring metropolitan research institutes, Africans as ethnographers, and the transnational features of knowledge production, this volume both consolidates and extends a range of new research questions focusing on the politics of imperial knowledge.

Series: Studies in Imperialism

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780719082122

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 June 2010

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Manchester University Press

Contributors:

Edited by Robert Gordon
Edited by Helen Tilley

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 21.0mm

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 572g

Pages: 404

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African History History & Military Non-Fiction Series: Studies in Imperialism

About the Author

Helen Tilley is Assistant Professor in the History Department at Princeton University with affiliations to the Programs in the History of Science and African Studies. Robert Gordon is a Professor of anthropology at the University of Vermont and a Research Affiliate at Free State University. His most recent book is Tarzan was an Expatriate and other tales in the anthropology of adventureA" edited with Luis Vivanco.