Abstract
What would happen if we consider the hypotheses of the anthropology called canonical, western, Eurocentric, not only as a universalistic dimension of the powerful European colonial project, as has hitherto been conceived, but as an effort of the provincial thought of the metropolises to extend their condition, clinging to modern assumptions? Accepting the challenge of this epistemic turn, the main objective of this article is to follow clues able to evidence how Europe has been called continuously by Afro-Caribbean anthropologists to deprovincialize, without, however, being able to bear to relate itself with a vigorous and dizzying creation in which anthropology seemed to be becoming outside its radiating axis. Suspecting such a matrix of thought that has been able to ignore the Caribbean, we propose, through a bibliographical survey and a documental research, an anti-colonial composition of the theoretical-ethnographic frameworks of anthropology, outlining a narrative populated by anthropologists such as Antenor Firmin, Jean Price-Mars, and Jacques Romain, who, in direct dialogue with canonical authors, led key debates, dear to the development of the discipline.
Keywords:
History of Anthropology; Anti-colonial narratives; Anténor Firmin; Jean Price-Mars; Jacques Roumain; Haiti