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...Greg Beckett This essay explores the significance of Michel-Rolph Trouillot's final work, Global Transformations: Anthropology and the Modern World . It posits that Trouillot's argument contains three key claims. First, that anthropology is predicated on a problematic alterity, a way of thinking...

... be. Reflecting on the limited direct concern with the state that Caribbeanist anthropology as a whole has displayed historically, the essay suggests a number of avenues for productively studying the everyday life of the state, including a more explicit consideration of the active role that governed populations...

...Charles V. Carnegie Small Axe Incorporated 2006 The Anthropology of Ourselves: An Interview with Sidney W. Mintz Charles V. Carnegie Preface Sidney Mintz has been a leading fi gure in anthropology and a preeminent scholar of the Antil- les for more than fi fty years and his writings...

... an investigation of the role of anthropological knowledge within Caribbean Studies. As such, Travels opens a window on the anthropological contribution to more general debates about nation-building throughout the circum-Caribbean. The author tracks anthropology's disciplinary history vis-à-vis the Caribbean...

... American who studies Haiti through the lens of literary texts and within a global analysis, arguing that Beckett’s book is more than an anthropological study of crisis; it is an act of memorializing the various ways a generation reflects on the idea of hope. The author’s reading of There Is No More Haiti...

...Justin Izzo This essay develops an anthropological genealogy of the créolité literary project. Examining works by Édouard Glissant, Patrick Chamoiseau, and Raphaël Confiant, the author studies how the créolistes read ethnography and the social sciences into a revitalized creole literary history...

... academy, drawing examples mainly from historical and anthropological work on Afro-America. It ends by considering the limitations of the perspectives put forth in the Éloge and the potential usefulness of the creolization concept for the future. © Small Axe, Inc. 2017 Afro-America Caribbean...

... of bodies and minds as Kanor stages it through her novel Humus . A polyphonic, disrupted, and fragmented text, Humus is the tale of embedded narrative memories that unveil the historical and anthropological traces of the Middle Passage. © Small Axe, Inc. 2011 In Search of a Third Space: Fabienne...

...Deborah A. Thomas This short essay is a response to the reflections of Nadia Ellis, Rivke Jaffe, and Neil Roberts regarding Exceptional Violence. It uses their reflections as a springboard to think through anthropological practice more broadly. © Small Axe, Inc. 2014 I want to state up front...

... discourse about fieldwork by articulating and refining the untheorized practices of fieldwork in the humanities. It situates literary fieldwork in relation to practices of literature, area studies, anthropology, and trauma studies. © 2013 by Small Axe, Inc. 2013 This is how she would come to know...

... Rico: A Study in Social Anthropology , Boorstin's essay framed Puerto Rico within the familiar “New World” rather than the exotic “third world” in relation to First World North America. © 2013 by Small Axe, Inc. 2013 They say mine comes third For the days were too heavy to carry So everyone...

...Mamyrah A. Dougé-Prosper Looking for Other Worlds: Black Feminism and Haitian Fiction (2022) by Régine Jean-Charles engages scholarship across multiple disciplines and fields—Haitian studies, Caribbean studies, Black feminist studies, media studies, ecofeminism, anthropology, geography, and history...

... is now the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies (SALISES). 8 Richard Price gives an account of the Johns Hopkins University Department of Anthropology in his memoir; see Richard Price, Inside/Outside: Adventures in Caribbean History and Anthropology (Athens: University...

... to shape a distinctive Caribbeanist anthropology at Johns Hopkins University, they did so with a sharply critical self-consciousness of the historical peculiarities of the Caribbean as it existed in the anthropological imagination.1 Oddly, central though the Caribbean was to the modern identity...

... Timothy Chin, “The Dundus and the Chineyman: Reflections on Postnationalism Prefigured ,” this issue of Small Axe , 73. See also Charles V. Carnegie, “The Dundus and the Nation,” Cultural Anthropology 11, no. 4 (1996): 470–509. 38 Brackette F. Williams, “A Class Act: Anthropology and the Race...

... in Racializing Practices,” by Virginia R. Dominguez. Current Anthropology 35, no. 4 (1994): 345–46. Review of Transitions et subordinations au capitalisme , by Maurice Godelier. American Anthropologist , n.s. 95, no. 1 (1993): 193. Review of Dominican Sugar Plantations: Production and Foreign Labor...

... Copyright © 2020 by Small Axe, Inc. 2020 small axe 62 July 2020 DOI 10.1215/07990537-8604622 © Small Axe, Inc. Contributors GreG Beckett is an assistant professor of anthropology at Western University, London, Ontario. He has written extensively on Haitian politics, society, and history...

... of Historyy (Boston: Beacon Press, 1995), 70–107. Small Axe 18, September 2005: pp. 150–170 ISSN 0799-0537 self-rule.³ Th ese accounts both echoed and seemed to corroborate the scientifi c discourse of nineteenth-century anthropology, with its racializing and classifi catory approaches to human...

... context. G reg B eckett is an assistant professor of anthropology at Bowdoin College. He has published articles on environmental, urban, and political crises in Haiti and on the ethical and political dimensions of international intervention and emergency response. Y arimar B onilla...

... © Small Axe, Inc. 2017 G reg B eckett is an assistant professor of anthropology at Bowdoin College. He has published articles in Small Axe , the Journal of Haitian Studies, American Anthropologist, Social and Economic Studies, Reviews in Anthropology , and PoLAR . His main areas...