Local Histories/Global Designs
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: January 17, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 396
ISBN-13: 9780691001401
Subjects: Anthropology; Area / regional studies; Colonization & independence; Globalization; 20th century; Knowledge, Theory of; Colonies; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Political aspects; Anthropology - Cultural; General; American Language and Literature; Latin American Studies; Postcolonial Studies; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Anthropology - General; Culture; Postcolonialism
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.