Trouillot remixed: the Michel-Rolph Trouillot reader

"Throughout his career, the internationally renowned Haitian anthropologist Michel-Rolph Trouillot unsettled key concepts in anthropology, history, postcolonial studies, Black studies, Caribbean studies, and beyond. From his early critique of the West to the ongoing challenges he leveled at disciplinary and intellectual boundaries and formations, Trouillot centered the Caribbean as a site both foundational to the development of Western thought and critical to its undoing. Trouillot Remixed offers a representative cross-section of his work that includes his most famous writings as well as lesser-known and harder to find pieces essential to his oeuvre. Encouraging readers to engage with Trouillot's scholarship in new ways, this collection demonstrates the breadth of his writing, his enduring influence on Caribbean studies, and his relevance to politically engaged scholarship more broadly"--

Anthropology and the savage slot : the poetics and politics of otherness -- The odd and the ordinary : Haiti, the Caribbean, and the world -- The vulgarity of power -- Good day Columbus : silences, power, and public history (1492-1892) -- The otherwise modern : Caribbean lessons from the savage slot -- The Caribbean region : an open frontier in anthropological theory -- Culture on the edges : creolization in the plantation context -- The perspective of the world : globalization then and now -- Making sense : the fields in which we work -- Caribbean peasantries and world capitalism : an approach to micro-level studies -- The anthropology of the state : close encounters of a deceptive kind -- From planters' journals to academia : the Haitian Revolution as unthinkable history -- Adieu, culture : a new duty arises -- The presence in the past -- Abortive rituals : historical apologies in the global era -- The interrupted march to democracy.