Local Histories/Global Designs
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: January 17, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780691001395
Subjects: Anthropology; Colonization & independence; Cultural studies; Globalization; 20th century; General; Colonies And Colonization; Political Anthropology; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Postcolonialism; Sociology; Political aspects; Knowledge, Theory of; Anthropology - Cultural; American Language and Literature; Latin American Studies; Postcolonial Studies; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Anthropology - General; Colonies; Culture
First sentence: from the perspective of French (and modern, post-Enlightenment European) history, while I was looking at the "same" scenario from the perspective of Spain and (Latin) American history-that is, from the perspective of a national history marginalized from post-Enlightenment Europe (Spain) and a colonial moment (Indias Occidentales, later on Latin America), which was also erased from the construction of the idea of colonialism and the modern world (post-Enlightenment). From my perspective it was "natural" that modernity and coloniality are two sides of the same coin.