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Anthropology, Colonial Policy and the Decline of French Empire in Africa

Autor Douglas W. Leonard
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 25 dec 2019
Conceived as both a vehicle to national prestige and as a civilizing mission, the second French colonial empire (1830-1962) challenged soldiers, scholars, and administrators to understand societies radically different from their own. The resultant networks of anthropological inquiry, however, did not have this effect. Rather, they opened pathways to political and intellectual independence framed in the language of social science, and in the process upended the colonial political system and reshaped the nature of human inquiry in France. While still unequal, French colonial rule in Africa revealed the durability and strength of non-European modes of thought. In this influential new study, historian Douglas W. Leonard examines the political and intellectual repercussions of French efforts to understand and to dominate colonial Africa through the use of anthropology. From General Louis Faidherbe in the 1840s to politician Jacques Soustelle and sociologist Pierre Bourdieu in the 1950s, these French thinkers sowed the seeds of colonial destruction.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781788315203
ISBN-10: 1788315200
Pagini: 248
Ilustrații: 7 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

A fascinating set of case studies that illustrate the evolution of anthropology and social theory from colonial tools of subjugation to decolonising intellectual forces

Notă biografică

Douglas W. Leonard is an Assistant Professor of History at the United States Air Force Academy, USA

Cuprins

Introduction1. Louis Faidherbe and the Construction of Intellectual Networks2. Lyautey, Gallieni, and Early Efforts at Political Association Informed by Ethnology3. Engaging Native Sources to Develop an Informed Colonial State4. Escaping Durkheim: Marcel Mauss and the Structural Turn5. Jacques Soustelle and the Ethnological State in Algeria6. Colonial Inheritance: Pierre Bourdieu and the Struggle for the Future of French Social TheoryNotesIndex

Recenzii

An intricate analysis of the intellectual connections and professional networks linking successive generations of leading French empire administrators. This work explains, not only the derivations of colonial knowledge, but the flawed presumptions on which it rested. A powerful reminder of the dangers intrinsic to conceptions of civilizational hierarchy, Leonard's work pulls apart the threads of France's cultural imperialism.
This is an important book, offering a new approach to the production of knowledge about African societies under French colonialism. Leonard demonstrates the ways in which French ethnographers and colonial administrators relied upon unacknowledged African interlocutors whose views deeply influenced their work. A major reference point for the scholarship on Francophone Africa.