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    This article discusses how statistics and ethnographic representation have been used to assert modern forms of power over colonized populations. It argues that statistics reduced people to standardized units of measurement that could be organized and controlled from above. Meanwhile, ethnographic representation constructed cultural identities that served the interests of colonial administrators seeking to govern subject peoples more efficiently. Both techniques objectified colonized populations in ways that asserted the hegemony of Western modernity.

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    This article discusses how statistics and ethnographic representation have been used to assert modern forms of power over colonized populations. It argues that statistics reduced people to standardized units of measurement that could be organized and controlled from above. Meanwhile, ethnographic representation constructed cultural identities that served the interests of colonial administrators seeking to govern subject peoples more efficiently. Both techniques objectified colonized populations in ways that asserted the hegemony of Western modernity.

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    Ethnographic Representation, Statistics, and Modern Power Asad, Talal Social Research; Spring 1994; 61, 1; Periodicals Archive

    Online pg. 55

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