Dirks Autobiography of an Archive

A Scholar's Passage to India
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-231-53851-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Cultures of History

A scholar’s intellectual awakening set against the backdrop of two disciplines and many journeys.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dirks, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Passage to India
Part I. Autobiography
1. Annals of the Archive: Ethnographic Notes on the Sources of History
2. Autobiography of an Archive
3. Preface to the Second Edition of The Hollow Crown
Part II. History and Anthropology
4. Castes of Mind
5. Ritual and Resistance: Subversion as a Social Fact
6. The Policing of Tradition: Colonialism and Anthropology in Southern India
Part III. Empire
7. Imperial Sovereignty
8. Bringing the Company Back In: The Scandal of Early Global Capitalism
9. The Idea of Empire
Part IV. The Politics of Knowledge
10. In Near Ruins: Cultural Theory at the End of the Century
11. G. S. Ghurye and the Politics of Sociological Knowledge
12. South Asian Studies: Futures Past
Part V. University
13. Franz Boas and the American University: A Personal Account
14. Scholars and Spies: Worldly Knowledge and the Predicament of the University
15. The Opening of the American Mind
Notes
Permissions
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nicholas B. Dirks is the chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, where he is also a professor of history and anthropology. An internationally renowned historian and anthropologist, he is known for his work on the history of kingship and the institution of caste in India, as well as for his writing on the British empire. His major works include The Hollow Crown: Ethnohistory of an Indian Kingdom; Castes of Mind: Colonialism and the Making of Modern India; and The Scandal of Empire: India and the Creation of Imperial Britain. He has edited several books, including Colonialism and Culture, Culture/Power/History: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory, and In Near Ruins: Cultural Theory at the End of the Century.