Acknowledgments  ix
Prelude: Remembering the Songwriter: The Life and Legacies of Michel-Rolph Trouillot / Yarimar Bonilla  1
Overture: Trouillot Remixed / Yarimar Bonilla, Greg Beckett, and Mayanthi Fernando  14
Part I. Geography of Imagination
Interlude 1. Between the Cracks
1. Anthropology and the Savage Slot: The Poetics and Politics of Otherness  53
2. The Odd and the Ordinary: Haiti, the Caribbean, and the World  85
3. The Vulgarity of Power  97
4. Good Day, Columbus: Silences, Power, and Public History (1492–1892)  103
Part II. The Otherwise Modern
Interlude 2. Ti Dife Boule: Radio Haiti Interview, 1977 / Translated and annotated by Laura Wagner  129
5. The Otherwise Modern: Caribbean Lessons from the Savage Slot  142
6. The Caribbean Region: An Open Frontier in Anthropological Theory  160
7. Culture on the Edges: Creolization in the Plantation Context  194
8. The Perspective of the World: Globalization Then and Now  215
Part III. The Fields in Which We Work
Interlude 3. Discipline and Perish  235
9. Making Sense: The Fields in Which We Work  239
10. Caribbean Peasantries and World Capitalism: An Approach to Micro-level Studies  276
11. The Anthropology of the State in the Age of Globalization: Close Encounters of a Deceptive Kind  296
12. From Planters' Journals of Academia: The Haitian Revolution as Unthinkable History  319
Part IV. A New Duty Arises
Interlude 4. Theorizing a Global Perspective  341
13. Adieu, Culture: A New Duty Arises  347
14. The Presence in the Past  374
15. Abortive Rituals: Historical Apologies in the Global Era  386
16. The Interrupted March to Democracy  406
Liner Notes: A Comprehensive Bibliography of Michel-Rolph Trouillot  421
Index  433
Credits  441