Time and the Other - How Anthropology Makes Its Object

With a New Postscript by the Author
ISBN: 978-0-231-16926-4
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 480 g

Time and the Other is a classic work that critically reexamined the relationship between anthropologists and their subjects and reoriented the approach literary critics, philosophers, and historians took to the study of humankind. Johannes Fabian challenges the assumption that anthropologists live in the "here and now," that their subjects live in the "there and then," and that the "other" exists in a time not contemporary with our own. He also pinpoints the emergence, transformation, and differentiation of a variety of uses of time in the history of anthropology that set specific parameters between power and inequality. In this edition, a new postscript by the author revisits popular conceptions of the "other" and the attempt to produce and represent knowledge of other(s).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fabian, Johannes

Weitere Mitwirkende

Bunzl, Matti

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword: Syntheses of a Critical Anthropology, by Matti BunzlPreface to the Reprint EditionPreface and Acknowledgments1. Time and the Emerging Other2. Our Time, Their Time, No Time: Coevalness Denied3. Time and Writing About the Other4. The Other and the Eye: Time and the Rhetoric of Vision5. ConclusionsPostscript: The Other RevisitedNotesReferences CitedIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Johannes Fabian is professor emeritus of cultural anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. His books include Out of Our Minds: Reason and Madness in the Exploration of Central Africa; Memory Against Culture: Arguments and Reminders; Anthropology with an Attitude: Critical Essays; and Ethnography as Commentary: Writing from the Virtual Archive.

Matti Bunzl is professor of anthropology and history at the University of Illinois at Urbana;Champaign and the author of Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: Hatreds Old and New in Europe.