Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense

by Ann Laura Stoler

Along the Archival Grain offers a unique methodological and analytic opening to the affective registers of imperial governance and the political content of archival forms. In a series of nuanced mediations on the nature of colonial documents from the nineteenth-century Netherlands Indies, Ann Laura Stoler identifies the social epistemologies that guided perception and practice, revealing the problematic racial ontologies of that confused...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691146365
• ISBN13: 9780691146362
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"