GGR267H5 Chapter Notes -Subaltern Studies
Document Summary
A reading that covers what we reviewed in class with slightly more detail. The theater of power was managed by specialists like priests and artists who maintain information and knowledge. Europe was all about their showmanship and extravagancies. But this gave way to official procedures and different book keepings. The article then begins to define the different modalities (used to define, a way to define something). First the historiographic modality is one of the most influential and most powerful in british. Examples of this modality include how facts are contrasted about past civilizations and in general the history of the indigenous people. Then the observational/travel modality is basically the facts told by those travelling and following the same itineraries thus reinforcing the same facts as before. The survey modality is things like surveying the roads and also surveying people. The enumerative modality is all about numbers including weights, measurements, and values.
