de L'Estoile / Benoit de L'Estoile / Neiburg Empires, Nations, and Natives

Anthropology and State-Making
1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8710-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 350 Seiten

By drawing on the social history of the social sciences, the sociology of scientific knowledge, and the ethnography of the State, these essays show how anthropology and state-building should be considered as intertwined processes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

de L'Estoile, Benoît

Benoit de L'Estoile, de L'Estoile

Neiburg, Federico

Sigaud, Lygia Maria

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: Anthropology and the Government of “Natives,” a Comparative Approach / Benoît de L’Estoile, Federico Neiburg, and Lygia Sigaud 1

Rationalizing Colonial Domination? Anthropology and Native Policy in French-Ruled Africa / Benoît de L’Estoile 30

“The Good-Hearted Portuguese People”: Anthropology of Nation, Anthropology of Empire / Omar Ribeiro Thomaz 58

Vichy France and the End of Scientific Folklore (1937–1954) / Florence Weber 88

From Nation to Empire: War and National Character Studies in the United States / Federico Neiburg and Marcio Goldman 108

Anthropology at the End of Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Colonial Social Sciences Research Council, 1944–1962 / David Mills 135

Bordering on Anthropology: Dialectics of a National Tradition in Mexico / Claudio Lomnitz 167

Indigenism in Brazil: The International Migration of State Policies / Antonio Carlos de Souza Lima 197

The Anthropologist as Expert: Brazilian Ethnology between Indianism and Indigenism / João Pacheco de Oliveira 223

Anthropology, Development, and Nongovernmental Organizations in Latin America / Jorge F. Pantaleón 248

The Ethnologist and the Architect: A Postcolonial Experiment in the French Pacific / Alban Bensa 263

“Today We Have Naming of Parts”: The Work of Anthropologists in Southern Africa / Adam Kuper 277

References 301

Contributors 327

Index 331

Über Autor(innen)

Benoît de L'Estoile teaches social anthropology at the École Normale Supérieure and at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, both in Paris.Federico Neiburg teaches social anthropology at the Museu Nacional, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.Lygia Sigaud teaches social anthropology at the Museu Nacional, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.