Global Transformations: Anthropology and the Modern World

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 Twenty-first-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, 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: M. Trouillot
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 01/27/2004
Pages: 178
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.74h x 6.18w x 0.66d
ISBN: 9780312295202

About the Author
MICHEL-ROLPH TROUILLOT is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of numerous books, including Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (Beacon 1997), Haiti, State Against Nation: The Origins and Legacy of Duvalierism, and Peasants and Capital: Dominion in the World Economy (Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture).