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Recalling the Belgian Congo : conversations and introspection
- Title
- Recalling the Belgian Congo : conversations and introspection / Marie-Bénédicte Dembour.
- Author
- Dembour, Marie-Bénédicte, 1961-
- Publication
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2000.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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- Description
- xx, 235 pages : illustrations, maps; 22 cm
- Summary
- "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 resulting in a far more complex picture of the colonial situation than she had anticipated, again forcing her to question her original assumptions. This resulted not only in a more differentiated perspective on Belgian colonialist rule, but it also sensitized her as regards the question of anthropological understanding and of what constitutes a historical fact. These two aspects of her work are reflected in this study that offers specific material on the way Belgian colonialism is remembered and reflects on its conditions of production, thus combining ethnographic analysis with a theoretical essay."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- New directions in anthropology ; v. 9
- Uniform Title
- New directions in anthropology ; v. 9.
- Subject
- Ethnology > Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Colonial administrators > Congo (Democratic Republic) > History
- Colonial administrators
- Ethnology
- Colonies > Administration
- Manners and customs
- Mass media
- Politics and government
- Ethnische Gruppe
- Geschichte
- Kolonialismus
- Kolonialverwaltung
- Lebensbedingungen
- Kolonie
- Koloniale periode
- Colonial administrators > Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Congo (Democratic Republic) > In mass media
- Belgium > Colonies > Administration. > Africa
- Congo (Democratic Republic) > History
- Congo (Democratic Republic) > Politics and government
- Congo (Democratic Republic) > Social life and customs
- Africa
- Congo (Democratic Republic)
- Belgien
- Demokratische Republik Kongo
- Kongo <Demokratische Republik>
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-230) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- A glossary in disguise -- My project -- Their expectations -- Our dialogues -- My story -- Their response -- Conclusion : the anthropological position.
- ISBN
- 1571819452
- 9781571819451
- 9781571817563
- 1571817565
- 1571817562 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 98050670
- OCLC
- ocm40267629
- 40267629
- SCSB-1142938
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library