Global Transformations: Anthropology and the Modern World

Global Transformations: Anthropology and the Modern World
ISBN-10
0312295219
ISBN-13
9780312295219
Series
Global Transformations
Category
Social Science
Pages
178
Language
English
Published
2004-01-27
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Author
M. Trouillot

Description

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.

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