Eliza F. Kent
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- January 2005
- ISBN:
- 9780195165074
- eISBN:
- 9780199835171
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0195165071.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
Descriptions of the social lives and customs of low castes in the 19th century India come from two main sources: missionary accounts and administrative records. This chapter explores the categories ...
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Descriptions of the social lives and customs of low castes in the 19th century India come from two main sources: missionary accounts and administrative records. This chapter explores the categories and concepts generated by missionaries and colonial administrators from their studies on Indian culture, religion, physiognomy, economics, etc. It then examines how these were appropriated and deployed by Shanar converts in the creation of a new, respectable identity as Nadar Kshatriyas.Less
Descriptions of the social lives and customs of low castes in the 19th century India come from two main sources: missionary accounts and administrative records. This chapter explores the categories and concepts generated by missionaries and colonial administrators from their studies on Indian culture, religion, physiognomy, economics, etc. It then examines how these were appropriated and deployed by Shanar converts in the creation of a new, respectable identity as Nadar Kshatriyas.
Robert W. Blunt
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780226655611
- eISBN:
- 9780226655895
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226655895.003.0002
- Subject:
- Anthropology, African Cultural Anthropology
Chapter Two shows how a complex colonial social field emerged in ostensibly “Kikuyu” areas of Kenya under indirect rule. This field remade elders into “traditional” authorities tasked with governing ...
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Chapter Two shows how a complex colonial social field emerged in ostensibly “Kikuyu” areas of Kenya under indirect rule. This field remade elders into “traditional” authorities tasked with governing the native reserves, and it resulted in a new, shared understanding of elderhood and its sovereign function among Kikuyus and colonial administrators alike. At the core of this understanding was the belief that elders possessed a singular capacity to ground the truth of signs through ritual and to bind ritual participants to the veridical power of their speech.Less
Chapter Two shows how a complex colonial social field emerged in ostensibly “Kikuyu” areas of Kenya under indirect rule. This field remade elders into “traditional” authorities tasked with governing the native reserves, and it resulted in a new, shared understanding of elderhood and its sovereign function among Kikuyus and colonial administrators alike. At the core of this understanding was the belief that elders possessed a singular capacity to ground the truth of signs through ritual and to bind ritual participants to the veridical power of their speech.
Charles Walker
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691153599
- eISBN:
- 9781400845248
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691153599.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, World Modern History
This chapter examines how fear was experienced by rebels, priests, and colonial administrators in Peru during the Tupac Amaru Rebellion of 1780–1783. It first provides a historical background on the ...
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This chapter examines how fear was experienced by rebels, priests, and colonial administrators in Peru during the Tupac Amaru Rebellion of 1780–1783. It first provides a historical background on the rebellion before discussing the cases of twelve of the eighteen clerics who were prosecuted by the bishop of Cuzco, Juan Manuel Moscoso y Peralta, to illustrate how priests experienced the uprising. It then considers what the rebellion contributed to our understanding of fear as a historical category and how the trials of the priests shed light on important questions about the Tupac Amaru Rebellion. It also explores how the Tupac Amaru uprising heightened social divisions in the Andes and notes that historians have deemed the postrebellion decades as the period of great fear. The chapter argues that Tupac Amaru as a symbol failed to foster the same broad, reactionary cohesion that the Haitian Revolution did a decade later.Less
This chapter examines how fear was experienced by rebels, priests, and colonial administrators in Peru during the Tupac Amaru Rebellion of 1780–1783. It first provides a historical background on the rebellion before discussing the cases of twelve of the eighteen clerics who were prosecuted by the bishop of Cuzco, Juan Manuel Moscoso y Peralta, to illustrate how priests experienced the uprising. It then considers what the rebellion contributed to our understanding of fear as a historical category and how the trials of the priests shed light on important questions about the Tupac Amaru Rebellion. It also explores how the Tupac Amaru uprising heightened social divisions in the Andes and notes that historians have deemed the postrebellion decades as the period of great fear. The chapter argues that Tupac Amaru as a symbol failed to foster the same broad, reactionary cohesion that the Haitian Revolution did a decade later.
Sadhana Naithani
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781604734553
- eISBN:
- 9781621037699
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781604734553.001.0001
- Subject:
- Literature, Folk Literature
This book examines folklore collections compiled by British colonial administrators, military men, missionaries, and women in the British colonies of Africa, Asia, and Australia between 1860 and ...
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This book examines folklore collections compiled by British colonial administrators, military men, missionaries, and women in the British colonies of Africa, Asia, and Australia between 1860 and 1950. Much of this work was accomplished in the context of colonial relations and done by non-folklorists, yet these oral narratives and poetic expressions of non-Europeans were transcribed, translated, published, and discussed internationally. The book analyzes the role of folklore scholarship in the construction of colonial cultural politics as well as in the conception of international folklore studies. Since most folklore scholarship and cultural history focuses exclusively on specific nations, there is little study of cross-cultural phenomena about empire and/or postcoloniality. The book argues that connecting cultural histories, especially in relation to previously colonized countries, is essential to understanding those countries’ folklore, as these folk traditions result from both internal and European influence. It also makes clear the role folklore and its study played in shaping intercultural perceptions that continue to exist in the academic and popular realms today. The book makes a bold argument for a twenty-first century vision of folklore studies that is international in scope and which understands folklore as a transnational entity.Less
This book examines folklore collections compiled by British colonial administrators, military men, missionaries, and women in the British colonies of Africa, Asia, and Australia between 1860 and 1950. Much of this work was accomplished in the context of colonial relations and done by non-folklorists, yet these oral narratives and poetic expressions of non-Europeans were transcribed, translated, published, and discussed internationally. The book analyzes the role of folklore scholarship in the construction of colonial cultural politics as well as in the conception of international folklore studies. Since most folklore scholarship and cultural history focuses exclusively on specific nations, there is little study of cross-cultural phenomena about empire and/or postcoloniality. The book argues that connecting cultural histories, especially in relation to previously colonized countries, is essential to understanding those countries’ folklore, as these folk traditions result from both internal and European influence. It also makes clear the role folklore and its study played in shaping intercultural perceptions that continue to exist in the academic and popular realms today. The book makes a bold argument for a twenty-first century vision of folklore studies that is international in scope and which understands folklore as a transnational entity.
Adrian Muckle
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824835095
- eISBN:
- 9780824869625
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824835095.003.0010
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Pacific Studies
This concluding chapter reiterates that the circumstances in which the war broke out at Tiamou in April 1917 provided an opportunity to examine the place of fear, rumor, and violence in attempts to ...
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This concluding chapter reiterates that the circumstances in which the war broke out at Tiamou in April 1917 provided an opportunity to examine the place of fear, rumor, and violence in attempts to maintain colonial power relations. War was not the result of an innocent misunderstanding or mutual incomprehension. Nor was it a product of wild settler imaginations, unprovoked Kanak aggression, or a “savage” reflex. Threats by colonial administrators and their intermediaries during recruitment for the war in Europe were one immediate catalyst. For those on the receiving end, threats were heightened by the specter of arbitrary arrest and grievances accumulated over six decades of French colonization as well as personal and collective enmities, rivalries, and insults.Less
This concluding chapter reiterates that the circumstances in which the war broke out at Tiamou in April 1917 provided an opportunity to examine the place of fear, rumor, and violence in attempts to maintain colonial power relations. War was not the result of an innocent misunderstanding or mutual incomprehension. Nor was it a product of wild settler imaginations, unprovoked Kanak aggression, or a “savage” reflex. Threats by colonial administrators and their intermediaries during recruitment for the war in Europe were one immediate catalyst. For those on the receiving end, threats were heightened by the specter of arbitrary arrest and grievances accumulated over six decades of French colonization as well as personal and collective enmities, rivalries, and insults.
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804761468
- eISBN:
- 9780804786850
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804761468.003.0004
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
This chapter discusses developmentalism during the twentieth-century, which is viewed as one kind of space-making project. It shows that this developmentalism had an important influence on fisher ...
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This chapter discusses developmentalism during the twentieth-century, which is viewed as one kind of space-making project. It shows that this developmentalism had an important influence on fisher artisanship, specifically its spatialization. The chapter provides an historical record of administrative rationality (i.e. ways spatial imaginaries updated developmental strategies). It then contrasts three different perspectives of colonial fishery administrators, namely Sundara Raj, Hornell, and Nicholson, on the question of trawling. By contrasting these perspectives, this chapter presents three spatial imaginaries of the coast and shows how these images informed certain developmental interventions along the southern coast of India in the first thirty years of the twentieth century. The chapter also addresses postcolonial developmentalism and the similarities between the postcolonial fisher artisan and the colonial imagining of coastal artisanship.Less
This chapter discusses developmentalism during the twentieth-century, which is viewed as one kind of space-making project. It shows that this developmentalism had an important influence on fisher artisanship, specifically its spatialization. The chapter provides an historical record of administrative rationality (i.e. ways spatial imaginaries updated developmental strategies). It then contrasts three different perspectives of colonial fishery administrators, namely Sundara Raj, Hornell, and Nicholson, on the question of trawling. By contrasting these perspectives, this chapter presents three spatial imaginaries of the coast and shows how these images informed certain developmental interventions along the southern coast of India in the first thirty years of the twentieth century. The chapter also addresses postcolonial developmentalism and the similarities between the postcolonial fisher artisan and the colonial imagining of coastal artisanship.
