Preface vii

Introduction: Historical Anthropology and Its Vicissitudes / Brian Keith Axel 1

Part 1 Ethnography and the Archive

Annals of the Archive: Ethnographic Notes on the Sources of History / Nicholas B. Dirks 47

Ethnographic Representation, Statistics, and Modern Power / Talal Asad 66

Part 2 Colonial Anxieties

New Christians and New world Fears in Seventeenth-Century Peru / Irene Silverblatt 95

The Kabyle Myth: Colonization and the Production of Ethnicity / Paul A. Silverstein 122

Developing Historical Negatives: Race and the (Modernist) Visions of a Colonial State / Ann Laura Stoler 156

Part 3 Marginal Contexts

Culture on the Edges: Caribbean Creolization in Historical Context / Michel-Rolph Trouillot 189

Race, Gender, and Historical Narrative in the Reconstruction of a Nation: Remembering and Forgetting the American Civil War / Bernard S. Cohn and Teri Silvio 211

Part 4 Archaeologies of the Fantastic

Fantastic Community / Brian Keith Axel 233

Occult Economies and the Violence of Abstraction: Notes from the South African Postcolony / John L. Comaroff and Jean Comaroff 267

Contributors 303

Index 305

Brian Keith Axel

Nicholas B. Dirks

Talal Asad

Irene Silverblatt

Paul A. Silverstein

Ann Laura Stoler

Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Bernard S. Cohn

John L. Comaroff

Teri Silvio

Jean Comaroff

“There is a great deal of talk in academia about the promise of interdisciplinary work, but the dialogue between anthropology and history is one of the few cases that already exhibits a substantial payoff. This volume corroborates that dialogue as vital, fruitful, and very much a site of innovation. From the Margins, thankfully, does not represent yet another ‘normal’ discipline.”—Dan Segal, Pitzer College — N/A

"From the Margins exemplifies the best of current thinking in anthropology. It cuts through a haze of recent theoretical developments in the discipline and opens the way for new syntheses. With this exemplary piece of intellectual history, Brian Axel and the authors he has assembled also provide the conditions for a renewal in the dialogue between anthropology and other discursive fields."—Achille Mbembe, author of On the Postcolony — N/A

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