Savaging civilization: Michel-Rolph Trouillot and the anthropology of the West
Given the risk of a diminishing interpretation of the accomplishment and ambition of Michel-Rolph Trouillot, his scholarly project can be profitably framed as a subversively ironic “Anthropology of the West.” Formal affiliation with Caribbean studies aside, Trouillot increasingly directed his versat...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/0921374014526026 2023-05-15T17:29:32+02:00 Savaging civilization: Michel-Rolph Trouillot and the anthropology of the West Neptune, Harvey R 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0921374014526026 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0921374014526026 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full-xml/10.1177/0921374014526026 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Cultural Dynamics volume 26, issue 2, page 219-234 ISSN 0921-3740 1461-7048 Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Anthropology Cultural Studies journal-article 2014 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/0921374014526026 2022-04-14T04:35:29Z Given the risk of a diminishing interpretation of the accomplishment and ambition of Michel-Rolph Trouillot, his scholarly project can be profitably framed as a subversively ironic “Anthropology of the West.” Formal affiliation with Caribbean studies aside, Trouillot increasingly directed his versatile and formidable intellectual talents toward challenging the universal conceits of the “North Atlantic.” 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 this geopolitical province. A potently witty and learned critic of the tales that the West has told the world (and itself) about itself, Trouillot undertook the near “unthinkable”: conceiving of North Atlantic centers of “civilization” as fields—however powerful—inhabited by “natives” of a kind, he intellectually savaged Western “civilization.” Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic SAGE Publications (via Crossref) Cultural Dynamics 26 2 219 234 |
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Given the risk of a diminishing interpretation of the accomplishment and ambition of Michel-Rolph Trouillot, his scholarly project can be profitably framed as a subversively ironic “Anthropology of the West.” Formal affiliation with Caribbean studies aside, Trouillot increasingly directed his versatile and formidable intellectual talents toward challenging the universal conceits of the “North Atlantic.” 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 this geopolitical province. A potently witty and learned critic of the tales that the West has told the world (and itself) about itself, Trouillot undertook the near “unthinkable”: conceiving of North Atlantic centers of “civilization” as fields—however powerful—inhabited by “natives” of a kind, he intellectually savaged Western “civilization.” |
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