TY - JOUR
T1 - Introduction : anthropology, collecting and colonial governmentalities
AU - Bennett, Tony
AU - Dibley, Ben
AU - Harrison, Rodney
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This special issue contributes to an emerging literature on the materialities of colonial government by considering the changing relations between practices of data collecting, styles of anthropological knowing and modes of governing which target the conduct of colonial and metropolitan populations. Drawing on comparative studies from Australia; the Australian administered territory of Papua; France; French Indo-China; New Zealand; North America and the UK; the papers consider the implications of different forms of knowledge associated with practices of collecting-anthropology, archaeology, folklore studies, demography-in apparatuses of rule in various late nineteenth and early twentieth-century contexts. This introduction outlines the rationale for the volume and elaborates the concept of "anthropological assemblage" which helps focus the authors' explorations of the socio-technical agencements which connected museum, field, metropolis and colony during this period. In doing so, it points towards a series of broader themes-the relationship between pastoral power and ethnographic expertise; the Antipodean career of the Americanist culture concept; and the role of colonial centres of calculation in the circulation of knowledge, practices of collecting and regimes of governing-which suggest productive future lines of inquiry for "practical histories" of anthropology.
AB - This special issue contributes to an emerging literature on the materialities of colonial government by considering the changing relations between practices of data collecting, styles of anthropological knowing and modes of governing which target the conduct of colonial and metropolitan populations. Drawing on comparative studies from Australia; the Australian administered territory of Papua; France; French Indo-China; New Zealand; North America and the UK; the papers consider the implications of different forms of knowledge associated with practices of collecting-anthropology, archaeology, folklore studies, demography-in apparatuses of rule in various late nineteenth and early twentieth-century contexts. This introduction outlines the rationale for the volume and elaborates the concept of "anthropological assemblage" which helps focus the authors' explorations of the socio-technical agencements which connected museum, field, metropolis and colony during this period. In doing so, it points towards a series of broader themes-the relationship between pastoral power and ethnographic expertise; the Antipodean career of the Americanist culture concept; and the role of colonial centres of calculation in the circulation of knowledge, practices of collecting and regimes of governing-which suggest productive future lines of inquiry for "practical histories" of anthropology.
UR - http://handle.uws.edu.au:8081/1959.7/uws:28691
U2 - 10.1080/02757206.2014.882838
DO - 10.1080/02757206.2014.882838
M3 - Article
SN - 0275-7206
VL - 25
SP - 137
EP - 149
JO - History and Anthropology
JF - History and Anthropology
IS - 2
ER -