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By Ann Laura Stoler
Alongside the Archival Grain deals a special methodological and analytic starting to the affective registers of imperial governance and the political content material of archival varieties. In a chain of nuanced mediations at the nature of colonial records from the nineteenth-century Netherlands Indies, Ann Laura Stoler identifies the social epistemologies that guided notion and perform, revealing the complex racial ontologies of that pressured epistemic house. Navigating known and impressive paths in the course of the lettered lives of these who governed, she seizes on moments whilst logic failed and triumphing different types now not looked as if it would paintings. She asks now not what colonial brokers knew, yet what occurred while what they notion they knew they discovered they didn't. Rejecting the thought that archival exertions be approached as an extractive company, Stoler units her points of interest on archival creation as a consequential act of governance, as a box of strength with violent impression, and never least as a shiny house to do ethnography.
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See also Nicholas Dirks, “Annals of the Archive: Ethnographic Notes on the Sources of History,” in From the Margins: Historical Anthropology and Its Futures, ed. : Duke University Press, 2002), 47–65. : Heineman, 1992); Richard Price, The Convict and the Colonel (Boston: Beacon, 1998). See also Axel, esp. 1–44. : Duke University Press, 2008). On the nature of “documentary government,” see Keith Breckenridge’s insightful essays, “From Hubris to Chaos: The Making of the Bewsyuro and the End of Documentary Government” and “Flesh Made Words: Fingerprinting and the Archival Imperative in the Union of South Africa, 1900–1930,” paper presented at the History and African Studies Seminar, History Department at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, 2 October 2001.
This site of safekeeping, a pyre of empire, is one plausible way to describe the deadening weight of colonial archives. But it is not the one I have in mind. Pramoedya’s caricature is a pointillist still life that captures the rigidities and distortions of a colonial optic. 7 For Pramoedya official paper stands in relief from the vibrant political culture of a Java that high and low officials labored to grasp but could barely comprehend. Yet colonial state archives are sites of perturbations of other kinds—less monuments to the absence or ubiquity of knowledge than its piecemeal partiality, less documents to the force of reasoned judgment than to both the spasmodic and sustained currents of anxious labor that paper trails could not contain.
These otherwise innocuous practices become iconic indices of a colonial world perceived as being at risk, signs of alert that accrue political deliberations, that sanction the rushing in of more evidence, that confirm causal connections that warrant more secreted documentation. 16 In the Netherlands Indies documents marked with an X as “secret,” “very secret,” or “highly confidential” were elevated to sacred status, to be guarded and then later revealed. As in the European Pauperism Commission of 1901, the stature of its recommendations derived in part from an earlier secreted commission that it exposed.