Social Construction of the Past (eBook, PDF)

Representation as Power
Redaktion: Bond, George C.; Gilliam, Angela

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Examines how mainstream scholarship constructs the past. By creating another people's cultural history, scholars appropriate it. This collection of essays looks at how `post-colonial' scholars are redefining the nature of scholarship.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. April 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134679980
• Artikelnr.: 59310009

Autorenporträt

George C. Bond is Professor of Anthropolgy and Education at Teachers College and Director of the Institute of African Studies at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York. Angela Gilliam is Professor of Anthropology at the Evergreen State College, Washington.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I The Representation of Ethnicity 1. Ethnicity and Representation
Leith Mullings 2. Racial Representations, Power and Dependent Development
in the United States South Pem Buck 3. Sexual Politics and the Mediation of
Class, Gender and Race in Former Slave Plantation Societies: the case of
Haiti Carolle Charles 4. Representation and Power: Blacks in Colombia Peter
Wade 5. From Eden to Limbo: the construction of indigenism in Brazil Alcida
Ramos 6. Literacy and Power in Colonial Latin America Thomas Cummins and
Joan Rappaport Part II The Social Construction of Antiquity 7. Social
Constructions of the Past in the Present William Shack 8. The Image of
Ancient Greece as an Instrument of European Hegemony Martin Bernal 9. The
Politics of Identity in Archaeology Michael Rowlands 10. Gender Divisions
of Labour in the Construction of Archaeological Knowledge in the United
States Joan Gero 11. Interpreting Silences: symbol and history in the case
of Ram Janmabhoomi/Babri Masjid Nandini Rao Part III The Scholarship of
Inequality: the South African case 12. Lifting the Veil of Popular History:
archaeology and politics in Urban Cape Town Martin Hall 13. Struggling with
Tradition in South Africa: the multivocality of images of the past Andrew
D. Spiegel 14. Intellectuals in South Africa and the Reconstructive Agenda
Mala Singh