Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense Nights a bastion of both useful

a bastion of both useful and useless knowledge-esoterica of all types

The book largely avoids the debate over who Mary Magdalene was - the penitent prostitute of European art or the secret wife of the DaVinci Code - and focuses instead on what she was: A strong

She is disturbed to find out what he actually is

Shea provides a colorful account of a grueling campaign that lasted five months and covered hundreds of miles of rugged Ozark terrain

takes the reader on a roller-coaster ride through the dark side of New Mexico

Along the Archival Grain: Epistemic Anxieties and Colonial Common Sense Nights a bastion of both usefulAlong the Archival Grain offers a unique methodological and analytic opening to the affective registers of imperial governance and the political content of archival forms. In a series of nuanced mediations on the nature of colonial documents from the nineteenth century Netherlands Indies, Ann Laura Stoler identifies the social epistemologies that guided perception and practice, revealing the problematic racial ontologies of that confused epistemic