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
Silencing the Past is a thought-provoking analysis of historical narrative. Taking examples ranging from the Haitian Revolution to Columbus Day, Michel-Rolph Trouillot demonstrates how power operates
In the euphoria that followed the departure of Haiti's hated dictator, Jean-Claude Duvalier, most Haitian and foreign analysts treated the regimes of the two Duvaliers, father and son, as a histori
Foreword by Hazel V. Carby A modern classic about power and the making of history, with a new foreword by a prominent scholar Michel-Rolph Trouillot places the West’s failure to acknowledge the most
What is the future of anthropology? What role will anthropologists play in the globalized world of the twenty-first century? How can anthropology move beyond its origins as the discipline assigned to
Loosely based on the Haitian slave insurrection of 1791, Babouk is a biting account of colonialism at its peak. By using the imagination of the novelist to fill in the gaps in the historical record, E
