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Article: The rhetoric of empire: gender representations in Portuguese India.
- Article from:
- Portuguese Studies
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
- Author:
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The reason I can do English stuff or even sometimes French stuff is not my personal acumen. It's the history of postcolonial peoples. Our access into universality was to learn Western discourse. I call us the wild anthropologists. (Gayatri Chakravorty Spikav)
1. The Argument *
European imperial representations of India were to a considerable extent built upon notions of gender. (1) So much so that Anne McClintock has called gendering the imperial unknown; an unknown that is mostly feminine. (2) Gender and gender relations provide logical operations that contribute to the resolution of some impasses of anthropological analysis when dealing with cultural ...