Global transformations : anthropology and the modern world / Michel-Rolph Trouillot.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trouillot, Michel-Rolph.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology--Philosophy.

Anthropology.

Globalization.

Physical Description:

x, 178 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [157]-171) and index.

ISBN:

0312295200

0312295219

OCLC:

52631414