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, it
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Global Transformations Anthropology and the Modern World
Michel-Rolph Trouillot
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GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONS
© Miehel-Rolph Trouillot, 2003 Softcover reprint 01 the hardcover 1st edition 2003 978-0-312-29520-2
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ISBN 978-0-312-29521-9 ISBN 978-1-137-04144-9 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-137-04144-9 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publieation Oata Trouillot, Michel-Rolph Global transformations: anthropology and the modern world/by Miehel-Rolph Trouillot. p.em. includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-312-29521-9 1. Anthropology-Philosophy. 2. Globalization. I. Title. GN33.T762003 301'.01-de22 A eatalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Design by Letra Libre. First edition: November, 2003 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
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Contents Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction Chapter 1 Anthropology and the Savage Slot: The Poetics and Politics of Otherness
7
Chapter 2
North Atlantic Fictions: Global Transformations, 1492-1945
29
Chapter 3
A Fragmented Globality
47
Chapter 4
The Anthropology of the State in the Age of Globalization: Close Encounters of the Deceptive Kind
79
Chapter 5
Adieu, Culture: A New Duty Arises
97
Chapter 6
Making Sense: The Fields in which We Work
117
Notes
141
Bibliography
157
Index
173
Acknowledgments This book has been an ongoing project since 1991 and many parts of it have appeared elsewhere as individual publications. However, the framework offered he re allowed me the opportunity to draw this work and research together in ways that I could not have envisioned when I first began working on what would later become this book. My acknowledgments must therefore of necessity be incomplete, since I could not hope to mention all the colleagues, graduate students, and others with whom conversations and debates have shaped my thinking. Most of chapter 1 was originally published in 1991 as "Anthropology and the Savage Slot: The Poetics and Politics of Otherness," in Richard G. Fox's edited volurne, Recapturing Anthropology: Working in the Present. Drafts of that article were commented on by participants at the Santa Fe Seminar, graduate students and faculty at Johns Hopkins University and at the New School for Social Research, and readers for the School of Ameri
