Experiencing Dominion contributes to ongoing debates on hegemony,
power, and identity in contemporary historical and anthropological
literature through an examination of the imperial encounter between
the British and the Greeks of the Ionian Islands during the
nineteenth century. Each chapter focuses on a different aspect of
the imperial encounter, with topics including identity
construction, the contestation over civil society, gender and the
manipulation of public space, hegemony and accommodation, the role
of law and of the institutions of criminal justice, and religion
and imperial dominion.
Thomas Gallant -- widely recognized as one of the leading
scholars in historical anthropology -- argues that a great deal can
be learned about colonialism in general through an analysis of the
Ionian Islands, precisely because that colonial encounter was so
atypical. For example, Gallant demonstrates that because the Ionian
Greeks were racially white, Christian, and descendents of Europe's
classical forebears, the process of colonial identity formation was
more ambiguous and complex than elsewhere in the Empire where
physical and cultural distinctions were more obvious. Colonial
officers finally decided the Ionian Greeks were "Mediterranean
Irish" who should be treated like European savages.
Experiencing Dominion pushes contemporary literature on
historical anthropology in a new direction by moving the discussion
away from an emphasis on a simple polarity between hegemony and
resistance, and instead focusing on the shared interactions between
colonizers and colonized, rulers and ruled, foreigners and locals.
In this important study, Gallant emphasizes contingency and
historical agency,examines intentionality, and explores the
processes of accommodation and, when warranted, resistance. In so
doing, he reconstructs the world Britons and Greeks made together
on the Ionian Islands during the nineteenth century through their
shared experience of dominion.
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