"Empires, Nations, and Natives" is a groundbreaking comparative
analysis of the interplay between the practice of anthropology and
the politics of empires and nation-states in the colonial and
postcolonial worlds. It brings together essays that demonstrate how
the production of social-science knowledge about the "other" has
been inextricably linked to the crafting of government policies.
Subverting established boundaries between national and imperial
anthropologies, the contributors explore the role of anthropology
in the shifting categorizations of race in southern Africa, the
identification of Indians in Brazil, the implementation of
development plans in Africa and Latin America, the construction of
Mexican and Portuguese nationalism, the genesis of "national
character" studies in the United States during World War II, the
modernizing efforts of the French colonial administration in
Africa, and postcolonial architecture.
The contributors--social and cultural anthropologists from the
Americas and Europe--report on both historical and contemporary
processes. Moving beyond controversies that cast the relationship
between scholarship and politics in binary terms of complicity or
autonomy, they bring into focus a dynamic process in which states,
anthropological knowledge, and population groups themselves are
mutually constructed. Such a reflexive endeavor is an essential
contribution to a critical anthropological understanding of a
changing world.
Contributors: Alban Bensa, Marcio Goldman, Adam Kuper, Benoit de
L'Estoile, Claudio Lomnitz, David Mills, Federico Neiburg, Joao
Pacheco de Oliveira, Jorge Pantaleon, Omar Ribeiro Thomaz, Lygia
Sigaud, Antonio Carlos de Souza Lima, Florence Weber
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