This post builds on the research article “Sympathy, State Building, and the Experience of Empire,” which was published in the February 2009 issue of the Society’s peer-reviewed journal, Cultural Anthropology.
Editorial Footnotes
Cultural Anthropology has published many essays on postcolonialism. See Anand Pandian's essay "Pastoral Power in the Postcolony: On the Biopolitics of the Criminal Animal in South India" (2008), Liam Buckley's "Objects of Love and Decay: Colonial Photographs in a Postcolonial Archive" (2005), Ana Maria Alonso's "Conforming Disconformity: "Mestizaje," Hybridity, and the Aesthetics of Mexican Nationalism" (2004), and Deborah A. Thomas' essay "Democratizing Dance: Institutional Transformation and Hegemonic Re-Ordering in Postcolonial Jamaica" (2002).
Related Readings
Hume, David 1962. A Treastie of Human Nature. D.G.C. Manabb, ed. Cleveland, OH: Meridian.
Deleuze, Gilles 1991 [1953]. Empiricism and Subjectivity: An Essay in Hume’s Theory of Human Nature. Constatin V. Boudas, trans. New York, NY: Columbia University Press.
Masco, Joseph 2008. “"SURVIVAL IS YOUR BUSINESS”: Engineering Ruins and Affect in Nuclear America." Cultural Anthropology 23(2): 361-398.
Pandian, Anand 2008. "PASTORAL POWER IN THE POSTCOLONY: On the Biopolitics of the Criminal Animal in South India." Cultural Anthropology 23(1): 85-117.
Buckley, Liam 2005. "Objects of Love and Decay: Colonial Photographs in a Postcolonial Archive." Cultural Anthropology 20(2): 249-270.
Alonso, Ana Maria 2004. "Conforming Disconformity: “Mestizaje,” Hybridity, and the Aesthetics of Mexican Nationalism." Cultural Anthropology 19(4): 459-490.
Thomas, Deborah A. 2002. "Democratizing Dance: Institutional Transformation and Hegemonic Re-Ordering in Postcolonial Jamaica." Cultural Anthropology 17(4): 512-550.
McCallum, Cecilia 1999. "Consuming Pity: The Production of Death among the Cashinahua." Cultural Anthropology 14(4): 443-471.
Reddy, William M. 1999. "Emotional Liberty: Politics and History in the Anthropology of Emotions." Cultural Anthropology 14(2): 256-288.
Lutz, Catherine 1986. "Emotion, Thought, and Estrangement: Emotion as a Cultural Category." Cultural Anthropology 1(3): 287-309.
Butt, Leslie 2005. ""Lipstick Girls" and "Fallen Women": AIDS and Conspiratorial Thinking in Papua, Indonesia." Cultural Anthropology 20(3): 412 – 442
Lowe, Celia 2004. "Making the Monkey: How the Togean Macaque Went from "New Form" to "Endemic Species" in Indonesians' Conservation Biology." Cultural Anthropology 19(4): 491-516
Murray Li, Tania 1999. "Compromising Power: Development, Culture, and Rule in Indonesia." Cultural Anthropology 14(3): 295 – 322
Keane, Webb 1997. "Knowing One's Place: National Language and the Idea of the Local in Eastern Indonesia." Cultural Anthropology 12(1): 37-63.
Spyer, Patricia 1996. "Diversity with a Difference: Adat and the New Order in Aru (Eastern Indonesia)." Culturla Anthropology 11(1): 25-50.