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Trumbull, George Rea, IV.

An empire of facts: Ethnography and the politics of cultural knowledge in French Algeria, 1871--1914.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	An empire of facts: Ethnography and the politics of cultural knowledge in French Algeria, 1871--1914.
Author:	Trumbull, George Rea, IV.
Description:	583 p.
Notes:	Director: John M. Merriman.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 66-11, Section: A, page: 4148.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-11A.
Subject:	History, European.
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3194715
ISBN:	9780542394973

An empire of facts: Ethnography and the politics of cultural knowledge in French Algeria, 1871--1914.
Trumbull, George Rea, IV.

An empire of facts: Ethnography and the politics of cultural knowledge in French Algeria, 1871--1914. - 583 p.

Director: John M. Merriman.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale University, 2005.

"An Empire of Facts" integrates the history of North Africa with the intellectual, cultural, and political history of the French Third Republic. In metropole and colony alike, the cultural politics of late nineteenth and early twentieth century France revolved around attempts to consolidate republicanism as a system of government and social organization in France. More particularly, in Algeria, where Algerians challenged the illegitimacy of colonial rule, many French ethnographers understood their texts on Algerian culture as contributions to the perpetuation of French colonial domination.

ISBN: 9780542394973Subjects--Topical Terms:

212425
History, European.

An empire of facts: Ethnography and the politics of cultural knowledge in French Algeria, 1871--1914.
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520 # $a Moreover, my dissertation roots Orientalist narratives in a specific historical moment, interrogating the relationship between text and context in colonial Algeria. As creations of imperial power, colonial ethnographies reflect the localized preoccupations of their authors; for many, behind every cultural expression lurked the menace of Algerian contestation of French rule. Studies of religion, gender, and crime created a corpus of cultural knowledge that the colonial state deemed useful for the perpetuation of empire.
520 # $a Narratives of domination emerged out of fieldwork-based studies. In colonial Algeria, budding social scientists drew upon political surveillance, geographically limited observations carried out by Arabic- and Berber-speaking administrators, to articulate new methodological and narrative conventions. As the attendant narrative genre to the nascent social sciences, ethnography relied upon participant observation methodology to reinforce its authoritative, generalizing voice. Early social scientists in colonial Algeria relied upon participant observation to establish their expertise. Ethnography surfaced as their primary means of cofidying knowledge.
520 # $a This project extends the analysis of important elements of cultural politics to France's empire. While historians of France have long debated the political valences attached to religion in the metropole, the avowedly secular Third Republic's relationship to Islam remains largely unexamined. "'An Empire of Facts'" addresses the ways in which administrators and scholars used ethnographic texts to understand Islam in relation to the politics of religion as understood in France itself. French knowledge about Algerian culture emerged in dialogue with metropolitan debates about the nature of French cultural and social identity.
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