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Empires, nations, and natives : anthropology and state-making / Benoit de L'Estoile, Federico Neiburg, and Lygia Sigaud, editors

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Author:
L'Estoile, Benoit de  Search this
Neiburg, Federico G  Search this
Sigaud, Lygia  Search this
Physical description:
viii, 340 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Type:
Books
Date:
2005
Contents:
Introduction: Anthropology and the government of "natives," a comparative approach / Benoît de L'Estoile, Federico Neiburg, and Lygia Sigaud -- Rationalizing colonial domination? : anthropology and native policy in French-ruled Africa / Benoît de L'Estoile -- "The good-hearted Portuguese people" : anthropology of nation, anthropology of empire / Omar Ribeiro Thomaz -- Vichy France and the end of scientific folklore (1937-1954) / Florence Weber -- From nation to empire : war and national character studies in the United States / Federico Neiburg and Marcio Goldman -- Anthropology at the end of empire : the rise and fall of the colonial Social Sciences Research Council, 1944-1962 / David Mills -- Bordering on anthropology : dialectics of a national tradition in Mexico / Claudio Lomnitz -- Indigenism in Brazil : the international migration of state policies / Antonio Carlos de Souza Lima -- The anthropologist as expert : Brazilian ethnology between indianism and indigenism / João Pacheco de Oliveira -- Anthropology, development, and nongovernmental organizations in Latin America / Jorge F. Pantaleón -- The ethnologist and the architect : a postcolonial experiment in the French Pacific / Alban Bensa -- "Today we have naming of parts" : the work of anthropologists in southern Africa / Adam Kuper
Topic:
Political anthropology  Search this
Political customs and rites  Search this
Politics and culture  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_796333