Ulrike Claas
Biographic Data
| ID | 92383 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ulrike Claas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ulrike |
| FAMILY NAME | Claas |
| SIGNATURE | CLAAS U |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Göttingen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Manuscript XXI
Hot air and the Colonialist 'Other
Images of the exotic 'Other' are widely recognized in anthropology as part of an 'intellectual technology' by which colonialism extended and maintained its control over imperial frontiers. For want of analysis, however, another kind of Other still languishes in anthropology: the Domestic Colonialist. In standard analytical narratives, this figure and the milieu in which it operated are still drawn in radically homogenized terms. In actuality, the…
On the edge of empire
Military brokers have played a decisive role in human affairs, but pragmatic obstacles make this an exceedingly difficult phenomenon to examine. Capitalizing on an unpublished documentary archive of interviews conducted in the early 1970s, we attempt a partial reconstruction of three barely known but consequential episodes of military brokerage in the early encounter between empire and the Middle Sepik people of New Guinea. In these incidents, "e…
On the edge of empire
Military brokers have played a decisive role in human affairs, but pragmatic obstacles make this an exceedingly difficult phenomenon to examine. Capitalizing on an unpublished documentary archive of interviews conducted in the early 1970s, we attempt a partial reconstruction of three barely known but consequential episodes of military brokerage in the early encounter between empire and the Middle Sepik people of New Guinea. In these incidents, "e…
Manuscript XXI
On the edge of empire
Military brokers have played a decisive role in human affairs, but pragmatic obstacles make this an exceedingly difficult phenomenon to examine. Capitalizing on an unpublished documentary archive of interviews conducted in the early 1970s, we attempt a partial reconstruction of three barely known but consequential episodes of military brokerage in the early encounter between empire and the Middle Sepik people of New Guinea. In these incidents, "e…
Manuscript XXI
Hot air and the Colonialist 'Other
Images of the exotic 'Other' are widely recognized in anthropology as part of an 'intellectual technology' by which colonialism extended and maintained its control over imperial frontiers. For want of analysis, however, another kind of Other still languishes in anthropology: the Domestic Colonialist. In standard analytical narratives, this figure and the milieu in which it operated are still drawn in radically homogenized terms. In actuality, the…
History (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · History (2 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Ancient history (1 works)