Ordering Africa: Anthropology, European imperialism, and the politics of knowledge

Helen Tilley*, Robert J. Gordon

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Abstract

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 the relationship between anthropology and colonial administration, this volume both consolidates and extends a range of new research questions focusing on the politics of imperial knowledge. Specific chapters examine French West Africa, the Belgian and French Congo, the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Italian Northeast Africa, Kenya, and Equatorial Africa (Gabon) as well as developments in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, and Switzerland. A major collection of essays that will be welcomed by scholars interested in imperial history and the history of Africa.

Original languageEnglish (US)
PublisherManchester University Press
Number of pages404
ISBN (Electronic)9781526118714
ISBN (Print)9780719082122
StatePublished - Mar 1 2017

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Arts and Humanities

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