Global Transformations: Anthropology and the Modern World. by. Michel-Rolph Trouillot. · Rating details · 58 ratings · 5 reviews. 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 /5. · His work has significantly transformed our understanding of the role of power in the modern world. I am grateful to have known him and worked with him.” Trouillot joined the UChicago faculty in after serving as the Krieger/Eisenhower Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and director of the Institute for Global Studies in Culture, Power and History at Johns Hopkins University. GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONS discusses the previous and future directions of the field of Anthropology in the light of globalization. It is a strong critique of almost everything that has been done up to the present. Anthropology, says the author, has ignored history to its own peril.5/5(9).
Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. Haiti, State against Nation: The Origins and Legacy of Duvalierism. New York: Monthly Review Press. Trouillot, Michel-Rolph. [] Anthropology and the Savage Slot: The Poetics and Politics of Otherness. In Global Transformations: Anthropology and the Modern World, 7 - New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Michel-Rolph Trouillot was a Haitian anthropologist who began his life as a student activist, history scholar, and writer in Port-au-Prince. Michel-Rolph. Global Transformations: Anthropology. Especially in the publications that appeared in the wake of the Cold War (namely, Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, and Global Transformations: Anthropology and the Modern World), he undertook a knowing interrogation of the narratives, concepts, and knowledge-making procedures that have legitimated the worldly power of.
MICHEL-ROLPH TROUILLOT is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago. He is the author of numerous books, including Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (Beacon ), Haiti, State Against Nation: The Origins and Legacy of Duvalierism, and Peasants and Capital: Dominion in the World Economy (Johns Hopkins Studies in Atlantic History and Culture). These are some of the questions that Michel Rolph Trouillot poses in this book. Trouillot explores the history of anthropology, and challenges contemporary anthropologists to radically rethink the utility of the concept of culture, their emphasis upon fieldwork as the central methodology of the discipline, and their relationships to the people whom they study. GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONS discusses the previous and future directions of the field of Anthropology in the light of globalization. It is a strong critique of almost everything that has been done up to the present. Anthropology, says the author, has ignored history to its own peril.
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