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Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule, With a New Preface
Ann Laura Stoler
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Paperback. Investigates the matters of state in late 19th and early 20th century Indonesia, particularly the critical role played by sexual arrangements and affective attachments in creating colonial categories and distinguishing the ruler from the ruled. This work argues that social classification is not a benign cultural act but a potent political one. Num Pages: 376 pages, 42 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: 1D; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 514.
This landmark book tracks matters of intimacy to investigate matters of state in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Indonesia, particularly the critical role played by sexual arrangements and affective attachments in creating colonial categories and distinguishing the ruler from the ruled. Arguing that social classification is not a benign cultural act but a potent political one, Ann Laura Stoler's essays focus on parents and parenting, nursing mothers, servants, orphanages, and abandoned children to reveal why they were understood as so essential to imperial governance and why they have been so consistently absent from its historiography. In a new preface, ... Read more
This landmark book tracks matters of intimacy to investigate matters of state in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Indonesia, particularly the critical role played by sexual arrangements and affective attachments in creating colonial categories and distinguishing the ruler from the ruled. Arguing that social classification is not a benign cultural act but a potent political one, Ann Laura Stoler's essays focus on parents and parenting, nursing mothers, servants, orphanages, and abandoned children to reveal why they were understood as so essential to imperial governance and why they have been so consistently absent from its historiography. In a new preface, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
376
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
513g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520262461
SKU
V9780520262461
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About Ann Laura Stoler
Ann Laura Stoler is Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies at The New School of Social Research. She is the author of Race and the Education of Desire and coeditor of Tensions of Empire: Colonial Cultures in a Bourgeois World (UC Press).
Reviews for Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule, With a New Preface
"Comprehensive, erudite, and compelling."
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