Chapter 1 Introduction: Engaging Colonial Knowledge

Chapter 2 ‘In Cold Blood’: Hierarchies of Credibility and the Politics of Colonial Narratives

Chapter 3 North Indian Lives in the Archives of the Colonial State

Chapter 4 Reading Farm and Forest: Colonial Forest Science and Policy in Southern Nigeria

Chapter 5 Insights from the ‘Ancient Word’: The Use of Colonial Sources in the Study of Aztec Society

Chapter 6 ‘In Unrestrained Conversation’: Approvers and the Colonial Ethnography of Crime in Nineteenth-Century India

Chapter 7 From Civil Servant to Little King: An Indigenous Construction of Colonial Authority in Early Nineteenth-Century South India

Chapter 9 Treachery and Ethnicity in Portuguese Representations of Sri Lanka

Chapter 10 William Hodges As Anthropologist and Historian

Chapter 11 Entangled with Otherness: Military Ethnographies of Headhunting in East Timor

Chapter 12 ‘What Do You Really Want in German East Africa, Herr Professor ?’ Counterinsurgency and the Science Effect in Colonial Tanzania