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Provincializing Europe: Postcolonial Thought and Historical Difference
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In this article, the idea of provincializing Europe and the Narration of Modernity is discussed, with a focus on postcoloniality and the artifice of history, and the two histories of capital and domestic cruelty.Abstract:
Acknowlegments ix Introduction: The Idea of Provincializing Europe 3 Part One: Historicism and the Narration of Modernity Chapter 1. Postcoloniality and the Artifice of History 27 Chapter 2. The Two Histories of Capital 47 Chapter 3. Translating Life-Worlds into Labor and History 72 Chapter 4. Minority Histories, Subaltern Pasts 97 Part Two: Histories of Belonging Chapter 5. Domestic Cruelty and the Birth of the Subject 117 Chapter 6. Nation and Imagination 149 Chapter 7. Adda: A History of Sociality 180 Chapter 8. Family, Fraternity, and Salaried labor 214 Epilogue. Reason and the Critique of Historicism 237 Notes 257 Index 299read more
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Comparison in Anthropology: The Impossible Method
TL;DR: This article explored the many ways in which comparative methods have been conceptualised and re-invented, praised and rejected, multiplied and unified. But they did not address the key conceptual issues at the heart of any form of anthropological comparison, while creating a bold charter for reconsidering the value of comparison in anthropology.
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Beyond the Public Eye On FOIA Documents and the Visual Politics of Redaction
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Experience and Viewpoints in the Social Domain of Space Technology
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Self-Rule and the Problem of Peoplehood in Colonial India
TL;DR: In this article, the colonial problem of peoplehood that Indian anticolonial thinkers grappled with in their attempts to conceptualize self-rule, or swaraj, was analyzed.