This is a longitudinal study that treats the trajectory of ethical discoveries about the European representation of world peoples across more than one hundred and fifty years (1860-2010). This study integrates literary representation and visual representations of world peoples—images—to show in greater detail how trends of the portrayal of race and culture are manifest across artistic and scientific genres. This study integrates the history of anthropology, trends in current anthropological research, and literary representation to argue for a holistic, interdisciplinary approach to understanding the French history of the representation of world peoples. This study argues that subjectivity and objectivity are interdependent terms, and that out of this interdependence, a phenomenon called ethnographic aesthetics. This study argues that the anthropological dispositif emerged in the colonial-modern era and has shaped the French representation of world peoples through tropes, ideology, observational practice, and discursive clichés inherent in proto-anthropological and modern anthropological thinking from the nineteenth century to today.

Basharat and his family are Indian Muslims who have relocated to Pakistan, but who remain deeply steeped in the nostalgia of pre-Partition life in India. Through Mirages of the Mind's absurd anecdotes and unforgettable biographical sketches-which hide the deeper unease and sorrow of the family's journey from Kanpur to Karachi-Basharet emerges as a wise fool, and the host of this unique sketch comedy. From humorous scenes in colonial north India, to the heartbreak and homesickness of post-colonial life in Pakistan, Mirages of the Mind forms an authentic portrait of life among South Asia's Urdu speakers, rendered beautifully into English by Matt Reeck and Aftab Ahmad.

Love Songs & Laments was selected by Jenni Russell.

A rebellious yet human portrait of India's bustling Bombay, as told by one of the greatest Urdu writers of the last century: Saadat Hasan Manto. 'The undisputed master of the modern Indian short story' Salman Rushdie, Observer In the 1930s and 40s, Bombay was the cosmopolitan capital of the subcontinent - an exhilarating hub of license and liberty, bursting with both creative energy and helpless degradation. It was also muse to the celebrated short story writer of India and Pakistan, Saadat Hasan Manto. Manto's hard-edged, moving stories remain, a hundred years after his birth, startling and provocative. In searching out those forgotten by humanity - prostitutes, conmen and crooks - Manto wrote about what it means to be human.