Global Transformations Anthropology and the Modern World

by Trouillot, Michel-Rolph

• ISBN13: 9780312295219
• ISBN10: 0312295219
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-12-19
• Publisher: SPRINGER - VERLAG

Summary

Through an examination of such disciplinary keywords, and their silences, as the West, modernity, globalization, the state, culture, and the field, this book aims to explore the future of anthropology in the 21st century, by examining its past, its origins, and its conditions of possibility alongside the history of the North Atlantic world and the production of the West. In this significant book, Michel-Rolph Trouillot challenges contemporary anthropologists to question dominant narratives of globalization and to radically rethink the utility of the concept of culture, the emphasis upon fieldwork as the central methodology of the discipline, and the relationship between anthropologists and the people whom they study.

Author Biography

Michel-Rolph Trouillot is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. His books include Haiti: State Against Nation and Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Anthropology and the Savage Slot: The Poetics and Politics of Otherness

North Atlantic Fictions: Global Transformation, 1492-1945

A Fragmented Globality

The Anthropology of the State in the Age of Globalization: Close Encounters of the Deceptive Kind

Adieu, Culture: A New Duty Arises

Making Sense