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Examines Talal Asad's (1991) investigation of the relationship between anthropology & colonialism. Prompted by R. G. Collingwood's (1939) notion of the logic of question & answer, Asad mandated a shift in anthropological preoccupation from the production of studies of European colonial occupation to the production of an anthropology of Western hegemony. Asad's contention that the narrative of colonialism should be comprehended as a narrative of the conditions of resistance is examined through a discussion of the construction of anthropological objects & the transforming effects of modern European authority in non-European locations. It is concluded that a historical anthropology of Western domination would essentially produce a historical anthropology of the postcolonial present. 19 References. Adapted from the source document.

"Ania Loomba examines the key features of the ideologies and history of colonialism, and the relationship of colonial discourse to literature. She goes on to consider the challenges to colonialism, surveying anti-colonial discourses, and recent developments in postcolonial theories and histories. Looking at how sexuality is figured in the texts of colonialism, Colonialism/Postcolonialism shows how contemporary feminist ideas and concepts intersect with those of postcolonialist thought."--Jacket.