East Indies and West Indies
Comparative Misapprehensions
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2144259 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Srinivas Aravamudan (Shriners Hospitals for Children, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 291-309 |
| Publication date | 2006-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropological Forum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0066-4677 • E-ISSN: 1469-2902 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00664670600986894 |
| OpenAlex | W2087940592 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 29 |
This paper discusses how the comparison of the East Indies and the West Indies has generated misapprehensions over several centuries. The stakes involved in comparing these two distinct areas may become clearer when examining their joint imperial legacies, even though our knowledge thereby gained can never be entirely accurate. Comparative studies of vastly different areas need to focus on temporality as well as on a dominant logic of spatiality. This paper analyses previous attempts to compare East Indies and West Indies, by Christopher Columbus, Athanasius Kircher, Daniel Defoe and Richard Madden, and discusses what can be learned from the mistakes made in each of these cases, which range from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Comparisons of the East Indies and the West Indies are revealed to be just as much about willed, imaginative and projective identifications in the past as about hardcore social and cultural reality seen from today's perspective
Ancient history · Caribbean island · Epistemology · Ethnology · Fifteenth · Geography · Sociology · Temporality · West indies · Anthropology · Australian History and Society · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Ecology · History · Philosophy
The spectre of comparisons
Critique of Pure Reason
ReOrient
The Great Divergence
The Interpretation of Cultures
Provincializing Europe
Futures Past
Modernity at large
Alternative modernities
Border Fetishisms
Colonialism and Its Forms of Knowledge
The Great Art of Knowing
Some Thoughts on Comparability and the Space-Time Problem
Dark Shamans
Imagined communities
On Comparability
Imperialism
The Repeating Island
The Problem of the Fetish, I
The Problem of the Fetish, IIIa
The Problem of the Fetish, II
Peasants and Capital
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,08 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |