Global Transformations: Anthropology and the Modern World

✍ Scribed by Michel-Rolph Trouillot (auth.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 183
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-5
Anthropology and the Savage Slot: The Poetics and Politics of Otherness....Pages 7-28
North Atlantic Fictions: Global Transformations, 1492–1945....Pages 29-46
A Fragmented Globality....Pages 47-78
The Anthropology of the State in the Age of Globalization: Close Encounters of the Deceptive Kind....Pages 79-96
Adieu, Culture: A New Duty Arises....Pages 97-116
Making Sense: The Fields in which We Work....Pages 117-139
Back Matter....Pages 141-178

✦ Subjects

Sociological Theory; Sociology, general; Methodology of the Social Sciences; Anthropology