Rethinking Colonial Categories
European Communities and the Boundaries of Rule
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8043314 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ann Laura Stoler (University of Wisconsin–Madison, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 134-161 |
| Publication date | 1989-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417500015693 |
| OpenAlex | W2123176153 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 305 |
| References cited | 101 |
In 1945, Bronislaw Malinowski urged anthropology to abandon what he called its “one-column entries” on African societies and to study instead the “no-man's land of change,” to attend to the “aggressive and conquering” European communities as well as native ones, and to be aware that “European interests and intentions” were rarely unified but more often “at war” (1945:14–15). Four decades later, few of us have heeded his prompting or really examined his claim
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Spirit Discipline Gender, Islam, and Hierarchies of Treatment in Postcolonial Northern Nigeria
Negotiating white Icelandic identity
Within a 'white' affective space
World Music in Television Ads
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From Windhoek to Auschwitz?
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Postcolonial Law
Superdiversity from a Historical Perspective
Empire and Sexual Deviance
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Polycultural Psychology
Life and Death in Ancient Colonies
"Miss Eurafrica"
Sex in an Imperial War Zone
Plant Transfers in Historical Perspective
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Waiting
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Regulating the poor
The French Encounter with Africans
Historical Metaphors and Mythical Realities
The intimate enemy
Sweetness and power
Europe and the people without history
Race, sex, and class under the Raj
Islands of white
Reinventing anthropology.
From slaves to squatters
Women and Colonization
The uncertainties of knowledge
The Myth of the Lazy Native
The Invention Of Tradition
Arise Ye Starvelings
Neither Black nor White
Koelies, planters en koloniale politiek
Capitalism and Confrontation in Sumatra's Plantation Belt, 1870-1979
The Politics of Race, Class and Nationalism in Twentieth Century South Africa
Gender, Culture and Empire
Caribbean Transformations
Netherlands India
Discourse on Colonialism
The Wretched of the Earth
Volkskapitalisme
Proletarians and Protest
Body of Power, Spirit of Resistance
White colonization and labour in Nineteenth‐century India
European orphans and vagrants in India in the Nineteenth century
Teso in Transformation
Mirror of the Indies
The Imperial Bureaucrat
The Dutch Plural Society
The Political Mythology of Apartheid
Black men in white skins’
Two European Images of Non-European Rule ∗
Conflict Within Small European Communities in Tanganyika
Bound Hand and Foot
Barracks-Concubinage in the Indies, 1887-1920
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Imagined communities
Making Algeria French. Colonialism in Bône 1870–1920
Coping with the Contradictions
The Politics of Truth
The British in the Far East
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The Hill Stations and Summer Resorts of the Orient
Christian Woman, Pious Wife, Faithful Mother, Devoted Missionary
Islands of White
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White Society in Black Africa
Ethnic Violence and Indigenous Protest the Tzeltal (Maya) Rebellion of 1712
Pau Hana
Christianity and colonialism in South Africa
Perceptions of Protest
Rethinking Women's Roles. Perspectives from the Pacific
The Development of Capitalism in Colonial Indochina (1870-1940)
Bound to Exile
Social Dimensions of Race
The People of Puerto Rico
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Ilongot Headhunting 1883-1974
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Ilongot Headhunting, 1883-1974
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Referential Ambiguity in the Calculus of Brazilian Racial Identity
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Plantation politics and protest on Sumatra's east coast
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| Unique citing works | 305 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 8,24 |
| Citation span | 1989 - 2026 (38) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 292 |