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... Chapter 4 explores the identities of the penal colony’s inhabitants. It first conducts a statistical and a qualitative reading of convict matriculation records that offer a wealth of biographical detail. These records reveal their makers’ worldviews, and the ideological assumptions and political...

... This chapter introduces the reader to the contradictions and contours of everyday penal colony life by way of an 1853 dispute between a number of slave and free convicts and Izabel, the colony commander’s slave. The convicts provided Izabel with produce they had grown on their provision grounds...

..., the contrapuntal narratives offer a sense of the number of thought-worlds surrounding plants, their cosmological import, their utility in lifeways, and their role in plantation development. weaving abacá plantation Mindanao US colonialism ...

...—French colonial psychiatrists in Algeria insisted on an ineradicable psychological difference between European settlers and the colonized. Yet a particular form of vernacular resistance emerged among a small number of ethnographically sensitive practitioners, who recognized the essential humanity...

... pawnship. Third is Paula da Silva, who colonial forces kidnapped as a child and then gifted to an Indigenous officer in the colonial army and his wife (also Indigenous). Together, these examples illustrate multiple paths out of Palmares and animate demographic data compiled to estimate the number...

... of the arguments advanced on the pages that follow. The introduction is designed to acknowledge respectfully a scholarship spanning several generations and at the same time to argue that the process of national liberation was far more complicated and possessed a far greater number of contingencies than has been...

... distribution, and of paradigmatic court cases that count perpetrators’ payback in coin and time, traces how “financializing” these relationalities becomes a mundane infrastructure while remaining fundamentally weird. reparations numbers and colonialism indigenous counting rectification insurance...

... resistance emerged among a small number of ethnographically sensitive practitioners, who recognized the essential humanity of their patients while respecting the ways in which language, culture, and the politics of colonial rule marked a particular experience that challenged typical French approaches...

...Science in a Place of Flux This chapter situates readers in the political foment of the late nineteenth century when native intellectuals, workers, and peasants amplified critiques against the Spanish colonial state toward political self-determination. These years were also a time...

... An exploration of colony social, material, and spiritual life illuminates hierarchies of color, ethnicity, class, and education. There was stratification among convicts that the administration promoted in a number of ways, but everyday routines also exemplified a Brazilian preference...

.... Indonesian readers were thus informed of a number of Wright’s significant observations of Indonesia, and in particular of his Indonesian informants, within months of these observations’ appearance in English and French. The main focus of the excerpts involves Wright’s discussions with three unnamed...

... The rich silver mines of Potosí were like veins through which flowed, as one contemporary put it, “the blood of the political body” of the Spanish empire. Born in Asunción, Paraguay, Pedro Vicente Cañete y Domínguez (1749/50–1816) worked his way up as an “enlightened” functionary of the colonial...

..., payments, and goods distribution, and of paradigmatic court cases that count perpetrators’ payback in coin and time, traces how “financializing” these relationalities becomes a mundane infrastructure while remaining fundamentally weird. reparations numbers and colonialism indigenous counting...

..., especially pawnship. Third is Paula da Silva, who colonial forces kidnapped as a child and then gifted to an Indigenous officer in the colonial army and his wife (also Indigenous). Together, these examples illustrate multiple paths out of Palmares and animate demographic data compiled to estimate the number...

... This chapter details the establishment of the occupation itself in different parts of the Dominican territory. Even as Spanish troops had barely arrived, a number of anticolonial mobilizations occurred. The new administration managed to crush these, including a center-island campaign...

... otherwise. Combining found footage with sound and subtitles, her films tell untold or censored histories that are markedly alternative. They speak to auto/biographical concerns and to instances of colonialism, war, apartheid, migration, globalization, and ecological crisis, being at the same time...

... the viceroy, one highlight being an allegorical masquerade including a float of the splendid mountain of silver. Bartolomé Arzáns de Orsúa y Vela’s description of the viceregal entry celebrates the city’s munificence and loyalty to the Crown, but also contains muted criticism of the colonial extraction...

.../colonial settler-state perpetuates relationships of financial and intellectual dependency. This is one way global health “aspirations toward a contemporary global sovereign” dovetail with long-standing colonial histories to ensure the perpetuation of colonial dependencies in indigenous communities. Yet...