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Living in the Stone Age : reflections on the origins of a colonial fantasy /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rutherford, Danilyn (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2018]
Subjects:
Papuans > Public opinion.
Dutch > Indonesia > Attitudes.
Papuans > Indonesia > Papua Barat > Attitudes.
Papua Barat (Indonesia) > Ethnic relations.
Stereotypes (Social psychology) > Indonesia > Papua Barat.
Papua (Indonesia) > History > 20th century.
Dutch > Colonization > Indonesia > Papua Barat.
Papua Barat (Indonesia) > Colonization.
Netherlands > Colonies > Asia.
Anthropology > Methodology.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: living in the Stone Age
  • Part I: Sympathy and its discontents: a colonial encounter. Hospitality in the highlands ; Sympathetic state-building
  • Part 2: Vulnerability and fantasies of mastery. Technological passions ; Technological performances
  • Part 3: Lessons for a new anthropology. Sympathy and the savage slot ; The ethics of kinky empiricism.