Global Transformations: Anthropology and the Modern World (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780312295219)

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.

Author: M. Trouillot
ISBN-10: 0312295219
ISBN-13: 9780312295219
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/27/2004
Pages: 178
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.68h x 6.74w x 0.45d