About David Scott
David Scott teaches anthropology at Columbia University. He is the author of Formations of Ritual (1994), Refashioning Futures: Criticism after Postcoloniality (Princeton University Press, 1999), Conscripts of Modernity: The Tragedy of Colonial Enlightenment (Duke University Press, 2004), and is co-editor of Powers of the Secular Modern: Talal Asad and his Interlocutors (Stanford University Press, 2006). He is also the editor of the journal Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism.
Articles by David Scott
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