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

Annual Review of Anthropology

Volumn 26, Issue , 1997, Pages 163-183

  Pels, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Literary theory; Modernity; Reflexive anthropology; Travel

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001321602     PISSN: 00846570     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.anthro.26.1.163     Document Type: Article

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