Michel-Rolph Trouillot (1 janv. 1949 – 1 janv. 2012)

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About:
-Haitian, PhD at Johns Hopkins, taught there, Duke, and Chicago
-anthropologist and historian
-multidisciplinary approach, combining anthropology, history, and political theory to examine power dynamics, colonialism, and historical narratives
-fled Haitian dictatorship in 1968 as a student activist, lived with his aunt in Brooklyn
→ whole family slept on the floor in a basement
→ worked as a taxi driver to put himself through Brooklyn College

Major works:
-Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History (1995)
→ argues that historical narratives are shaped by power dynamics at every stage--from what gets documented and remembered to what is silenced or ignored
→ uses the Haitian Revolution as a central example, showing how one of the most important revolts against slavery has been marginalized or misrepresented in mainstream historical narratives
-Global Transformations: Anthropology and the Modern World (2003)
→ argues that anthropology has often failed to fully account for the historical processes that shape contemporary global relations, including colonialism, capitalism, and imperialism
→ calls for a more historically grounded anthropology

Major contributions:
-Power and the Production of History
→ history is not a neutral recounting of facts but a process of selection and exclusion that is deeply shaped by power dynamics
→ what gets remembered and what is silenced in history is determined by those in power, often to maintain certain narratives or structures of domination
-historical anthropology
→ the idea that anthropology cannot be separated from historical processes, including its own
→ anthropology has often treated modernity as a universal process, failing to account for its roots in colonialism and imperialism

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