Collecting, Ordering, Governing

Collecting, Ordering, Governing deals with anthropology, museums and colonial government in the period between the 1880s–1890s and the 1930s–1940s. The object of inquiry is the connection between the activities named in the title and sites of collection, calculation and governmental agencies. The authors examine how these concepts illuminate relations between anthropology and practices of social governance in the first half of the twentieth century. They do this by scrutinizing similarities and differences among a number of carefully selected case-studies most relevant for their lines of inquiry. In so doing, they draw upon post-Deleuzian assemblage theory to examine human and non-human actors in different sites of collection – more specifically, those associated with anthropological expeditions and fieldwork. They examine the passage of things, texts and data from the ‘field’ to sites of calculation – a term coined by Latour – where they underwent ordering practices typical of museums, such as accessioning,...

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  Juan Carlos Moreno García•Journal of Egyptian History•2021

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