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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
§ 1 History and Anthropology: Strange Bedfellows
Notes
Bibliography
§ 2 In Search of the Colonial Subject
Anthropology and “the People Without History”
Foucault and After
Sourcing Subjectivity
Some Residual Issues
Bibliography
§ 3 Laughing at Leviathan: John Furnivall, Dutch New Guinea, and the Ridiculousness of Colonial Rule
Hobbes in Burma
Abstinence and Display
Visions of the Ridiculous
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
§ 4 Export Ceramics in Philippine Societies: Historical and Ethnographic Perspectives
Introduction
Trade Ceramics: Histories of Movement
Historical Sources on Ceramics in Philippine Society
Ethnography on Ceramics in Philippine Society
Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography
§ 5 Chronotopes of a Dystopic Nation: The Birth of “Dependency” in Late Porfirian Mexico
Introduction
“Chronotopes” and Independence
Why Dependency?
New Chronotopes of Dependency
Two Border Crossings
International Investments in a Chronotope of Dependency: The Creelman Interview
John Kenneth Turner and the Rise and Limits of Transnational Time
Transnational Ties Deployed to Destabilize International Arrangements
Notes
Bibliography
§ 6 Foretelling Ethnicity in Trinidad: The Post-emancipation “Labor Problem”
The Context: Pre-emancipation Trinidad
The “Labor Problem” and Reactions to Emancipation
Foretelling Ethnicity
Notes
Bibliography
§ 7 The Nationalization of Anthropology: Japan and China in Manchuria
The Conception of Minzoku, or Nationality
Asian Nationalities and the Nation-State in Manchukuo
The Imbrication of Race and Culture in Minzoku
Oroqen
The Ethnology and History of the Chinese Geo-body
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
§ 8 The Figure of the Tamil in Modern Malaysia
Capital and Historiographic Desire
The “Docile” Tamil and Colonial Labor
Ethnic Politics and Unions
The New Economic Policy and the Indian Middle Class
Contemporary Stereotypes
Thaipusam
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
§ 9 Unsettled Stories and Inadequate Metaphors: The Movement to Historical Anthropology
Metaphors
An Emergent Grammar
Against Discipline
Calvino
Menocchio
Odette
Jean de Coras
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
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