{"product_id":"the-haiti-exception-anthropology-and-the-predicament-of-narrative-9781781382998","title":"The Haiti Exception: Anthropology and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis collection of essays considers the means and extent of Haiti’s ‘exceptionalization’ – its perception in multiple arenas as definitively unique with respect not only to the countries of the North Atlantic, but also to the rest of the Americas. Painted as repulsive and attractive, abject and resilient, singular and exemplary, Haiti has long been framed discursively by an extraordinary epistemological ambivalence. This nation has served at once as cautionary tale, model for humanitarian aid and development projects and point of origin for general theorising of the so-called Third World. What to make of this dialectic of exemplarity and alterity? How to pull apart this multivalent narrative in order to examine its constituent parts?  Conscientiously gesturing to James Clifford’s \u003ci\u003eThe Predicament of Culture \u003c\/i\u003e(1988), the contributors to \u003ci\u003eThe Haiti Exception \u003c\/i\u003ework on the edge of multiple disciplines, notably that of anthropology, to take up these and other such questions from a variety of methodological and disciplinary perspectives, including Africana Studies, Anthrohistory, Art History, Black Studies, Caribbean Studies, education, ethnology, Jewish Studies, Literary Studies, Performance Studies and Urban Studies. As contributors revise and interrogate their respective praxes, they accept the challenge of thinking about the particular stakes of and motivations for their own commitment to Haiti. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReviews 'The Haiti Exception will be of interest to scholars of Haiti, most obviously to anthropologists, but also scholars of literature, performance, art, urban planning, and anyone interested in the interplay between academic research and international aid. Its multidisciplinary approach means, naturally, that not all chapters will be of equal interest to all readers, but the volume as a whole should be relevant to anyone who thinks about how narratives and stereotypes are created, maintained, reinforced, and subverted.' \u003cbr\u003eLaura Wagner, \u003ci\u003eH-France Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlessandra Benedicty-Kokken, Jhon Picard Byron, Kaiama  L. Glover and Mark Schuller, ‘Editors’ Introduction’\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003eI. Tracing  Intellectual Histories\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003eJhon Picard Byron, ‘Transforming Ethnology: Understanding the Stakes and Challenges of Price-Mars  in the Development of Anthropology in Haiti’\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003eMark Schuller, ‘The Intellectual Uses of Haiti’\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003eAlessandra Benedicty-Kokken, ‘On “being Jewish”, on  “studying Haiti”… Herskovits, Métraux,  Race, and Human Rights’\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003eLaurent Dubois,  ‘Haiti, Gender and Anthrohistory: A Mintzian Journey’\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003eII. Interrogating  the Enquiring Self \u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003eKaiama L. Glover, ‘“Written with Love”: Intimacy and  Relation in Katherine Dunham’s \u003ci\u003eIsland  Possessed\u003c\/i\u003e’\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003eBarbara Browning,  ‘Dance, Haiti and Lariam Dreams’ \u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003eCarlo A. Célius, ‘“Haitian Art” and Primitivism:  Effects, Uses and Beyond’ \u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003eIII. On  Nation-Building: Histories, Theories, Praxes\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003eDeborah Thomas, ‘Haiti, Politics and Sovereign  (Mis)recognitions’\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003eValerie Kaussen, ‘Haitian Culture in the Informational  Economics of Humanitarian Aid’\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003eMichèle Duvivier Pierre-Louis, ‘Thinking About the City  – At Last!’\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cp\u003eClaudine Michel, ‘Epilogue: \u003ci\u003eKalfou  Danje: \u003c\/i\u003eSituating  Haitian Studies, and My Own Journey Within It’\u003c\/p\u003e    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50469969199447,"sku":"9781781382998","price":109.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781781382998.jpg?v=1744896971","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-haiti-exception-anthropology-and-the-predicament-of-narrative-9781781382998","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}