Scratches on the Face of the Country; Or, What Mr. Barrow Saw in the Land of the Bushmen

Pratt, Mary Louise

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“…These redundancies not only explain some of the self-evidence acquired by Western governmentality in its development, their study also gives a new lease of life to cultural analysis [something not always appreciated by anthropologists (see Rosaldo 1994)]. They allow one to trace continuities that go beyond the West's occidental self-images (Carrier 1995): continuities between past colonial and today's professional ethnography (Fabian 1983;Pels & Salemink 1994;Pratt 1985Pratt , 1992Stewart 1994), or between nineteenth-century reinventions of ethnicity and their present-day deployment (Appiah 1993;Dirks 1992aDirks , 1995Mudimbe 1988).…”

Section: Methods and Contexts; Culture And Historymentioning

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The Anthropology of Colonialism: Culture, History, and the Emergence of Western Governmentality

Pels

1997

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

386

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The study of colonialism erases the boundaries between anthropology and history or literary studies, and between the postcolonial present and the colonial past. From the standpoint of anthropology, it is also reflexive, addressing the colonial use and formation of ethnography and its supporting practices of travel. Since the 1960s, the study of colonialism has increasingly presented a view of colonialism as struggle and negotiation, analyzing how the dichotomous representations that Westerners use for colonial rule are the outcome of much more murky and complex practical interactions. By thus treating Western governmentaliry as emergent and particular, it is rewriting our histories of the present.

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Section: Methods and Contexts; Culture And Historymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Anthropology of Colonialism: Culture, History, and the Emergence of Western Governmentality

Pels

1997

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

386

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“…We can say that cunninghame graham settles on the cusp of two different cultures, and he engages, therefore, in a kind of self-parody and self-irony as a strategy of selfprotection and self-presentation. Pratt (2001) expresses this as follows:…”

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Discursive Heterogeneity in Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham’s Travel Account Mogreb-El-Acksa: A Journey in Morocco (1898)

Aammari

2017

ELOPE

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Robert Bontine cunninghame graham is a less-examined British traveller who made his peregrinations into Western Barbary, or the "Land of the Furthest West," in the late nineteenth century, the era of full-blown empire. He reveals his solid support for the British Empire and its complex discursive apparatuses. Expressing his Orientalist desire to know Moroccans as Other, this traveller claims an epistemological mastery and narrative invasion over the field of his observation. However, the traveller is not a wholly root-and-branch imperialist; he is caught between narrative mastery and a fantasy of Western Barbary as a toponym, where his different desires can be validated and an image of Moroccan society as an impenetrable, concealed domain of inaccessibility and total invisibility. These paradoxical viewpoints reveal certain discursive "heterogeneities, inconsistencies and slippages" (Lowe 1991, 7) within graham's travel account Mogreb-El-Acksa: A Journey in Morocco (1898) Keywords: ambivalence; cunninghame graham; colonial discourse; oriental desire; travel narrative; discursive heterogeneity Diskurzivna heterogenost v potopisu Roberta Bontine Cunninghama grahama Mogreb-El-Acksa: A Journey to Morocco (1898)POvZEtEK Robert Bontine cunninghame graham je manj znani britanski popotnik, ki je konec devetnajstega stoletja, ko je bil imperij na višku, potoval k Berberom v »najbolj zahodno deželo«. Njegovo pisanje kaže na trdno zasidranost v britanskem imperializmu in njegovih diskurzivnih aparatih. Pri izražanju orientalistične želje po spoznavanju Maročanov kot Drugega so njegova opažanja podvržena njegovim lastnim družbeno-zgodovinskim izhodiščem. vendar pa ta popotnik ni zagrizen imperialist; ujet je med pripovedno veščostjo in fantazijo afriškega severozahoda kot toponima, kjer se preverjajo njegove različne želje, in podobo maroške družbe kot nepropustnega, skritega kraja, ki je nedostopen in popolnoma neviden. ta paradoksalna stališča razkrivajo značilne diskurzivne »heterogenosti, nedoslednosti in zdrse« (Lowe 1991, 7) v grahamovem potopisu Mogreb-El-Acksa: A Journey to Morocco (1898). Ključne

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“…This implies that one has to move beyond academic anthropology to understand its emergence and reproduction. Anthropology and the Colonial Encounter embodied that realization, through, among other things, a number of papers on administrative ethnographic practices (Lackner 1973, Clammer 1973, Owen 1973, and through Asad's argument that not the complicity of anthropologists with colonialism, but the location of anthropology in the colonial context, was the crucial issue (1973: 18-19 Although the recent studies of ethnography from a literary perspective have brought to light previously unacknowledged relations between text and (colonial) context (Clifford and Marcus 1986), we have seen above that they do not tend to broaden their scope beyond the confines of the discipline and that they rewrite anthropological history to suit their present demands (but see Fabian 1983, Pratt 1985. The call for experimentation with ethnography is in itself a new claim to academic authority, and a weak one at that, because the problems it identifies (power inequalities in ethnographic representation) are not solved by the solution it proposes (new representations, cf.…”

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Introduction: Five theses on ethnography as colonial practice¹

Pels

Salemink

1994

History and Anthropology

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Despite the influence of Thomas Kuhn on critical assessments of anthropology, disciplinary histories written by anthropologists still tend to be self-serving. To this day, it seems evident to look upon the great thinkers of anthropology, those whom we think revolutionized its theories and methods, as the main carriers of the history of anthropology. Our own research projects, concerning localized, contextual histories of ethnographic practices in colonial Tanganyika (Pels) and Vietnam (Salemink), made us consider the history of anthropology from another angle. We feel that the emphasis on the "big men" of anthropology in disciplinary histories obscures the way in which ethnography was linked to the construction of colonial and neo-colonial societies. In the following text we elaborate some theses on the historical relevance of ethnographic practice, understood in relation to the anthropological discipline and to its respective local and historical contexts. These theses are obviously not the definitive outcome of a rewriting of anthropology's history, but we consider them to be necessary steps toward a critical reflection on the relations between ethnography and colonialism.First Thesis: Disciplinary history obscures the way in which academic anthropology was linked to the construction of colonial and neo-colonial societies through ethnographic practice.

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Scratches on the Face of the Country; Or, What Mr. Barrow Saw in the Land of the Bushmen

Cited by 171 publications

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The Anthropology of Colonialism: Culture, History, and the Emergence of Western Governmentality

The Anthropology of Colonialism: Culture, History, and the Emergence of Western Governmentality

Discursive Heterogeneity in Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham’s Travel Account Mogreb-El-Acksa: A Journey in Morocco (1898)

Introduction: Five theses on ethnography as colonial practice¹

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Scratches on the Face of the Country; Or, What Mr. Barrow Saw in the Land of the Bushmen

Cited by 171 publications

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The Anthropology of Colonialism: Culture, History, and the Emergence of Western Governmentality

The Anthropology of Colonialism: Culture, History, and the Emergence of Western Governmentality

Discursive Heterogeneity in Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham’s Travel Account Mogreb-El-Acksa: A Journey in Morocco (1898)

Introduction: Five theses on ethnography as colonial practice1

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