Data-Gathering in Colonial Southeast Asia 1800-1900: Framing the Other

by Farish A Noor and Farish A. Noor

1. This is the first broad systematic study of colonial data-mining and knowledge-production in colonial Southeast Asia that has been written. 2. This work will show how data-mining and knowledge-production in colonial Southeast Asia was intimately linked to the broader enterprise of Orientalist scholarship, and how data-collection went hand-in-hand with the construction of negative stereotypes of the native Other. I hope that this may compel scholars...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9463724419
• ISBN13: 9789463724418
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"