Global Transformations: Anthropology And The Modern World
by M. Trouillot /
2004 / English / EPUB
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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.
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.