The Uncontrollable Afterlives of Ethnography: Lessons from ‘salvage colonialism’ in the German overseas empire

Ethnography

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 251-288

  Steinmetz, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

colonial state; discourse; ethnography; Germany; imperialism; policymaking; Polynesia; Samoa

Indexed keywords

EID: 29144512854     PISSN: 14661381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1466138104045657     Document Type: Article

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