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made of both the printed archive and the unpublished collection in
this study. To date, four volumes of the projected "six volume lames
Stuart Archives" series have emerged, containing the testimonies of
almost a hundred informants.
Both the printed and the unpublished collection has been refracted
through the twin prims of the contemporary circumstances of each
informant, as far as they are known, and the contemporary
circumstances, interests and motivations ofStuart himself.
Although elusive, the latter have been illuminated by means of the
questions which Stuart selected to address to his informants, through
a comparison ofhis interviews with the work ofother scholars known
to have interviewed the same informants, and by his own writings.
3. CO CEPTS AND CHAPTERS
An explanation of terms used in this study is necessary. Colonial
establishment refers to a sizeable settler minority that serve as ruling
groups or cycles of any institution or a country. Generally, an
establishment is a settled military, naval or civil organisation with