“The world of rumor and gossip is like a privileged world with which a social scientist or an anthropologist can take the temperature of popular aspirations.” WorldSocialScientistAspirationGossipPrivilegedRumorTemperatureAnthropologists Author:James C. Scott
“The aspiration to such uniformity and order alerts us to the fact that modern statecraft is largely a project of internal colonization, often glossed, as it is in its imperial rhetoric, as a 'civilizing mission'.” FactsOrderModernCivilizationProjectsMissionsAspirationInternalsRhetoricUniformityColonization Author:James C. Scott
