Global transformations : anthropology and the modern world

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Global transformations : anthropology and the modern world

Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Palgrave Macmillan, 2003

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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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.

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Introduction Anthropology and the Savage Slot Global Transformations Adieu, Culture The Anthropology of the State in the Age of Globalization Anthropology for a Changing World A Note on Methodology: Beyond Fieldwork Who Needs Anthropologists?

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