L2: Ethnohistory - How Can the Colonised Speak? Flashcards
What did studying colonial archives provide? (1)
A way to explore the relationship between information-gathering and political power (1)
What does Tristan Platt say about the amount of information in the colonial archives? (2)
The archive isn’t made up of everything (1)
There are only a few surviving scraps (1)
What does Kirsten Hastrup say is missing from the colonial archives? (1)
Who would want to record these things? (1)
Information about the everyday, taken-for-granted things that we don’t usually write down (1)
Ethnographers (1)
Why does Trouillot say there are omissions in the colonial archives? (1)
To silence the past (1)
What group of people does the term “subaltern” refer to? (2)
Those at the bottom of society (1)
(Formerly) colonised women, indigenous people etc (1)
What does Spivak mean when she says that “power is relatde to represenation”? (2)
The powerful control the ways that the powerless are able to represent themselves (1)
The powerful represent themselves througj hegemony (1)
According to Andres Guerrero, what method do states use to either silence populations or put words in their mouths? (1)
Ventriloquism (1)
What is the result of scribes “translating” what is said into the categories of the courts and the state? (1)
They condition the types of narrative that can later be written (1)
ALONG the archival grain or ACROSS?
How does Stoler believe anthropologists work in the archives? (1)
Explain how this happens (4)
Takes the archive as the subject of the enquiry (1)
Views the archive as a site of knowledge/fact production (1)
Examines the processes in the making of the archive (1)
Studies the process of colonialism through the colonial archives (1)
ALONG the archival grain or ACROSS?
How does Platt believe anthropologists work in the archives? (1)
Explain how this happens (2)
Across the archival grain (1)
Focusin on uncovering subaltern voices and the categories of the colonised (1)
Combining archival research with ethnographic fieldwork (1)
What does Platt (2012) say reading archival documents along the grain reveal? (1)
“Half-concealed passions, deceny, racism or guilt of their authors” (1)
What is the ethnohistorical method? (2)
Uses historical and ethnographic data (1)
Uses an emic perspective to understand a culture on its own terms and its own cultural code (1)
What are key aspects of ethnohistory? (3)
Critically using ethnological concepts and materials to examine and use historical sources (1)
Taking into account Indigenous’ own sense of how events are constructed and how they culturally construct the past (1)
Cultural biography drawing on as many testimonies as possible for the time period the sources allow (1)
What can ethnohistory be used for? (5)
Bridging different knowledge frameworks (1)
Exploring why individuas behaved the way they did in particular historical circumstances (1)
Countering historical bias and allowing for multiple sides of a story (1)
Informing dominant accounts of historical events and providing alternative eprspectives (1)
Practical use such as evidence for legal cases (1)
How did ethnohistory origiante? (2)
Tribes had to prove theu had occupied and used land under dispute at the time of treaty-making (1)
Anthropologists were hired as expert witnesses to advance or defend claims of Indigenous people against the US government (1)
