TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stoler,Ann Laura
TI  - Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense 
SN  - 9780691015774
AV  - DS643 -- .S787 2009eb 
U1  - 959.8/022 
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - Archives
KW  - Indonesia
KW  - History
KW  - Colonial administrators
KW  - Netherlands
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Appreciations --; Chapter One. Prologue in Two Parts --; Chapter Two. The Pulse of the Archive --; PART 1: Colonial Archives and Their Affective States --; Chapter Three. Habits of a Colonial Heart --; Chapter Four. Developing Historical Negatives --; Chapter Five. Commissions and Their Storied Edges --; PART 2: Watermarks in Colonial History --; Chapter Six. Hierarchies of Credibility --; Chapter Seven. Imperial Dispositions of Disregard --; Appendix 1. Colonial Chronologies --; Appendix 2. Governors-General of the Netherlands Indies, 1830-1930 --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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 epistemic space. Navigating familiar and extraordinary paths through the lettered lives of those who ruled, she seizes on moments when common sense failed and prevailing categories no longer seemed to work. She asks not what colonial agents knew, but what happened when what they thought they knew they found they did not. Rejecting the notion that archival labor be approached as an extractive enterprise, Stoler sets her sights on archival production as a consequential act of governance, as a field of force with violent effect, and not least as a vivid space to do ethnography
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400835478
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