Contents:
Introduction : engaging colonial knowledge / Ricardo Roque and Kim A. Wagner;
"In cold blood" : hierarchies of credibility and the politics of colonial narratives / Ann Laura Stoler;
North Indian lives in the archives of the colonial state / Leigh Denault;
Reading farm and forest : colonial forest science and policy in southern Nigeria / Pauline von Hellermann;
Insights from the "ancient word" : the use of colonial sources in the study of Aztec society / Caroline Dodds Pennock;
"In unrestrained conversation" : approvers and the colonial ethnography of crime in nineteenth-century India / Kim A. Wagner;
From civil servant to little king : an indigenous construction of colonial authority in early nineteenth-century south India / Niels Brimnes;
French anthropology and the Durkheimians in colonial Indochina / Susan Bayly;
Treachery and ethnicity in Portuguese representations of Sri Lanka / Alan Strathern;
William hodges as anthropologist and historian / Nicholas Thomas;
Entangled with otherness : military ethnographies of headhunting in East Timor / Ricardo Roque;
"What do you really want in German East Africa, Herr Professor?" : counterinsurgency and the science effect in colonial Tanzania / Andrew Zimmerman