Recalling the Belgian Congo : conversations and introspection /
When the author embarked on her study, her aim was to approach former colonial officers with a view to analyzing processes of domination in the ex-Belgian Congo. However, after establishing a rapport with some of these officers, the author was soon forced to revise her initial assumptions, widely he...
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| Định dạng: | Licensed eBooks |
| Ngôn ngữ: | Tiếng Anh Tiếng Pháp |
| Được phát hành: |
New York :
Berghahn Books,
2000.
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| Loạt: | New directions in anthropology ;
v. 9. |
| Truy cập trực tuyến: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=714121 |
| Tóm tắt: | When the author embarked on her study, her aim was to approach former colonial officers with a view to analyzing processes of domination in the ex-Belgian Congo. However, after establishing a rapport with some of these officers, the author was soon forced to revise her initial assumptions, widely held in present-day Belgium: these officers were not the ""baddies"" she had expected to meet. Exploring the colonial experience through the respondents' memories resulted in a far more complex picture of the colonial situation than she had anticipated, again forcing her to question her origi. |
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| Mô tả vật lý: | 1 online resource (xx, 235 pages) : illustrations, maps. |
| Định dạng: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Thư mục: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-230) and index. |
| số ISBN: | 9780857457127 0857457128 1571819452 9781571819451 1571817562 9781571817563 |