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Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power : Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule by Ann Laura Stoler; Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies Ann Laura Stoler is a social science available to read on EtoBox.
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Why, Ann Laura Stoler asks, was the management of sexual arrangements and affective attachments so critical to the making of colonial categories and to what distinguished ruler from ruled? Contending that social classification is not a benign cultural act but a potent political one, Stoler shows that matters of the intimate were absolutely central to imperial politics. It was, after all, in the intimate sphere of home and servants that European children learned what they were required to learn o
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- Author
- Ann Laura Stoler; Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies Ann Laura Stoler
- Publisher
- Berkeley, California: University of California Press
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780520262461
- Category
- social science
- Subjects
- Political Science, Anthropology, History
- Rating
- 3.85 / 5 (203 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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