Global Transformations: Anthropology and the Modern World

by Michel-Rolph Trouillot

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312295200
• ISBN13: 9780312295202
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary