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Forests of citation: concluding unauthorized postscript to figured fragments of Bernard S. Cohn's `History and Anthropology: the State of Play'

Philosophy Department, UC Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA, baxel{at}ucsc.edu

This text represents an exploration of the possible significance of Bernard S. Cohn's 1980 essay, `History and Anthropology: The State of Play', for understanding the present of historical anthropology and its futures. My discussion has two aims: (1) to reflect on both Bernard S. Cohn's pedagogy and mode of inquiry; and (2) to explore the complexity and nuance of citationality as a generative principle within the constitution of historical anthropology's subject. Toward this, I examine Cohn's notion of `the colonial situation' and reflect on how the emergence of the human sciences is intertwined with the proliferation of colonialism's enduring legacy within postcoloniality.

Key Words: anthropology • citationality • Bernard S. Cohn • colonialism • history • postcoloniality • subjectification

History of the Human Sciences, Vol. 22, No. 3, 1-27 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/0952695109104421


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