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Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power: Race and the Intimate in Colonial Rule
Why, Ann Laura Stoler asks, was the management of sexual arrangements and affective attachments so critical to the making of colonial categories and to what distinguished ruler from ruled? Contending that social classification is not a benign cultural act but a potent political one, Stoler shows that matters of the intimate were absolutely central to imperial politics. It ...more
Paperback, 341 pages
Published
September 2nd 2002
by University of California Press
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Stoler's "Carnal Knowledge and Imperial Power" is less one monograph than several essays put together as chapters. The individual chapters recycle a basis theme, but the theme is worth considering: how colonial administrations (here, largely Dutch Indonesia and French Indochina) tried to deal with domestic arrangements to preserve colonial rule. She addresses the issue of mixed-race marriages--- when and how and where mixed offspring where classified as "European" or "na...more
It's funny how so few people write a review on this here although many have read this. This one is more historical (and substantial) than her "Race and the Education of Desire." Some interesting materials and very strong message of "let me tell you how to interpret this." She is a pioneer figure but we are so used to her argument now already -- which is considered her academic triumph but makes the book appear less innovative (ironic!).
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