Colonial Archives and the Arts of Governance
dc.contributor.author | Stoler, Ann Laura | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2006-09-08T19:40:40Z | |
dc.date.available | 2006-09-08T19:40:40Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2002-03 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | Stoler, Ann Laura; (2002). "Colonial Archives and the Arts of Governance." Archival Science 2 (1-2): 87-109. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/41825> | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1389-0166 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 1573-7519 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/2027.42/41825 | |
dc.description.abstract | Anthropologists engaged inpost-colonial studies are increasingly adoptingan historical perspective and using archives. Yet their archival activity tends to remain morean extractive than an ethnographic one.Documents are thus still invokedpiecemeal to confirm the colonial invention ofcertain practices or to underscore culturalclaims, silent. Yet such mining of the content of government commissions,reports, and other archival sources rarely paysattention to their peculiar placement and form .Scholars need to move fromarchive-as-source to archive-as-subject. Thisarticle, using document production in the DutchEast Indies as an illustration, argues thatscholars should view archives not as sites ofknowledge retrieval, but of knowledgeproduction, as monuments of states as well assites of state ethnography. This requires asustained engagement with archives as culturalagents of ``fact'' production, of taxonomies inthe making, and of state authority. What constitutes thearchive, what form it takes, and what systemsof classification and epistemology signal atspecific times are (and reflect) critical featuresof colonial politics and state power. The archive was the supreme technology of thelate nineteenth-century imperial state, arepository of codified beliefs that clustered(and bore witness to) connections betweensecrecy, the law, and power. | en_US |
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dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.format.mimetype | text/plain | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science+Business Media | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Humanities / Arts / Design | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Information Storage and Retrieval | en_US |
dc.subject.other | History | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Library Science | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Cultural Heritage | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Organization/Planning | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Archives | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Archiving | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Bureaucracy | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Colonial Archives | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Ethnography | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Knowledge | en_US |
dc.title | Colonial Archives and the Arts of Governance | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbsecondlevel | Information and Library Science | en_US |
dc.subject.hlbtoplevel | Social Sciences | en_US |
dc.description.peerreviewed | Peer Reviewed | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationum | Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-1382, USA | en_US |
dc.contributor.affiliationumcampus | Ann Arbor | en_US |
dc.description.bitstreamurl | http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/41825/1/10502_2004_Article_5096461.pdf | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1020821416870 | en_US |
dc.identifier.source | Archival Science | en_US |
dc.owningcollname | Interdisciplinary and Peer-Reviewed |
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