Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule - Couverture souple

Stoler, Ann Laura

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0520231112 ISBN 13 : 9780520231115

Editeur : University of California Press, 2002

Synopsis

Why, Ann Laura Stoler asks, was the management of sexual arrangements and affective attachments so critical to the making of colonial categories and to what distinguished ruler from ruled? Contending that social classification is not a benign cultural act but a potent political one, Stoler shows that matters of the intimate were absolutely central to imperial politics. It was, after all, in the intimate sphere of home and servants that European children learned what they were required to learn of place and race. Gender-specific sexual sanctions, too, were squarely at the heart of imperial rule, and European supremacy was asserted in terms of national and racial virility. Stoler looks discerningly at the way cultural competencies and sensibilities entered into the construction of race in the colonial context and proposes that "cultural racism" in fact predates its postmodern discovery. Her acute analysis of colonial Indonesian society in the late-19th and early-20th centuries yields insights that translate to a global, comparative perspective.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Ann Laura Stoler, Professor of Anthropology and History at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, is the author of Race and the Education of Desire (1995) and coeditor of Tensions of Empire (California, 1997).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520231112
• ISBN 13: 9780520231115
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 341
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