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Colonial
Situations
Essays on the Contextualization
of Ethnographic Knowledge
Edited by George W. Stocking, Jr.
History of Anthropology series,
volume 7
The relation of anthropology to
colonialism and imperialism became a burning issue for anthropologists
in the mid-1960s.
As European colonies in Asia and Africa became independent nations,
as the United States engaged in war in Southeast Asia and in
covert operations in South America, anthropologists questioned
their interactions with their subjects and worried about the
political consequences of government-supported research. By 1970,
some spoke of anthropology as "the child of Western imperialism"
and as "scientific colonialism." Ironically, as the
link between anthropology and colonialism became more widely
accepted within the discipline, serious interest in examining
the history of anthropology in colonial contexts diminished.
This volume is an effort to initiate a critical historical consideration
of the varying "colonial situations" in which (and
out of which) ethnographic knowledge essential to anthropology
has been produced. The essays comment on ethnographic work from
the middle of the nineteenth century to nearly the end of the
twentieth, in regions from Oceania through southeast Asia, the
Andaman Islands, and southern Africa to North and South America.
The "colonial situations" also cover a broad range,
from first contact through the establishment of colonial power,
from District Officer administrations through white settler regimes,
from internal colonialism to international mandates, from early
"pacification" to wars of colonial liberation, from
the expropriation of land to the defense of ecology. The motivations
and responses of the anthropologists discussed are equally varied:
the romantic resistance of Maclay and the complicity of Kubary
in early colonialism; Malinowski's salesmanship of academic anthropology;
Speck's advocacy of Indian land rights; Schneider's grappling
with the ambiguities of rapport; and Turner's facilitation of
Kaiapo cinematic activism.
"Provides fresh insights for those
who care about the history of science in general and that of
anthropology in particular, and a valuable reference for professionals
and graduate students."&3151;Choice
"A splendid series."—Joan Mark, Isis
"Among the most distinguished publications
in anthropology, as well as in the history of social sciences."—George
Marcus, Anthropologica
George W. Stocking, Jr., is the Stein-Freiler Distinguished Service Professor
in the Department of Anthropology and the Committee on the Conceptual
Foundations of Science at the University of Chicago. He is editor
of the History of Anthropology series published by the University
of Wisconsin Press and the author of After
Tylor: British Social Anthropology, 1888–1951; Victorian
Anthropology; Race, Culture, and Evolution; The
Ethnographer's Magic; and Delimiting
Antropology. In 1993, he was awarded the Huxley Medal
of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
Other volumes in the History of Anthropology
series
Volume 1, Observers
Observed: Essays on Ethnographic Fieldwork
Volume 2, Functionalism
Historicized: Essays on British Social Anthropology
Volume 3, Objects and Others: Essays on
Museums and Material Culture
Volume 4, Malinowski, Rivers, Benedict
and Others: Essays on Culture and Personality
Volume 5, Bones, Bodies, Behavior: Essays
on Biological Anthropology
Volume 6, Romantic Motives:
Essays on Anthropological Sensibility
Volume 7, Colonial Situations:
Essays on the Contextualization of Ethnographic Knowledge
Volume 8, Volksgeist as Method and Ethic:
Essays on Boasian Ethnography and the German Anthropological
Tradition
Volume 9, Excluded Ancestors, Inventible Traditions:
Essays Toward a More Inclusive History of Anthropology
Edited by Richard Handler
Volume 10, Significant
Others: Interpersonal and Professional Commitments in Anthropology
Edited by Richard Handler
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September 1993
LC: 91-50327 GN
348 pp. 6 x 9 23 halftones, 2 maps
ISBN 0-299-13124-6 Paper $24.95 x
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