Ethnography and the historical imagination /

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Author / Creator:Comaroff, John L., 1945-
Imprint:Boulder : Westview Press, 1992.
Description:xiv, 337 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Studies in the ethnographic imagination
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1316603
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Other authors / contributors:Comaroff, Jean
ISBN:081331304X (alk. paper)
0813313058 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Editorial Note
  • 1. Ethnography and the Historical Imagination
  • 2. Of Totemism and Ethnicity
  • 3. Bodily Reform as Historical Practice
  • 4. The Long and the Short of It
  • 5. Goodly Beasts, Beastly Goods
  • 6. The Madman and the Migrant
  • 7. Images of Empire, Contests of Conscience
  • 8. Medicine, Colonialism, and the Black Body
  • 9. The Colonization of Consciousness
  • 10. Homemade Hegemony
  • Bibliography
  • About the Book and Authors
  • Index