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

by Robert J. Gordon

Book Overview

African research played a major role in transforming the discipline of anthropology in the twentieth century. Ethnographic studies, in turn, had significant effects on the way imperial powers in Africa approached subject peoples.

Ordering Africa provides the first comparative history of these processes. With essays exploring metropolitan research institutes, Africans as ethnographers, the transnational features of knowledge production, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719082129
• ISBN13: 9780719082122
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"