Helen Tilley is Assistant Professor in the History Department at Princeton University with affiliations to the Programs in the History of Science and African Studies. Robert Gordon is a Professor of anthropology at the University of Vermont and a Research Affiliate at Free State University. His most recent book is "Tarzan was an Expatriate and other tales in the anthropology of adventure" edited with Luis Vivanco

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Helen Tilley, "Africa, Imperialism, and Anthropology"
1. Emmanuelle Sibeud, "The Elusive Bureau of Colonial Ethnography: African Experience and Ethnographic Terrain in France, 1906-30"
2. Holger Stoecker, "The Advancement of African Studies by the German Research Foundation (GRF), 1920-45"
3. Benoît de l'Estoile, "Internationalization and Scientific Nationalism: the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures (IIALC) Between the Wars"
4. Sara Pugach, "Of Conjunctions, Comportment, and Clothing: The Place of African Teaching Assistants at Hamburg's Colonial Institute, 1909-19"
5. Jean-Hervé Jezequel, "Voices of Their Own?: African Participation in the Production of Colonial Knowledge in French West Africa, 1900-50"
6. Bruce Berman and John Lonsdale, "Custom, Modernity and the Search for Kihooto: Kenyatta, Malinowski, and the Making of Facing Mount Kenya"
7. Patrick Harries, "From the Alps to Africa: Swiss Missionaries and the Rise of Anthropology"
8. John Cinnamon, "Colonial Anthropologies and the Primordial Imagination in Equatorial Africa"
9. Nancy Hunt, "Colonial Medical Anthropology and the Making of the Central African Infertility Belt"
10. Barbara Sòrgoni, "The Scripts of Alberto Pollera, an Italian officer in Colonial Eritrea: Administration, Ethnography and Gender"
11. Douglas Johnson, "From Political Intelligence to Colonial Anthropology: Ethnography in the Sudan Intelligence Reports and Sudan Notes and Records"
12. Gary Wilder, "Colonial Ethnology and Political Rationality in French West Africa"
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