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Time and the Other Johannes Fabian

Time and the Other By Johannes Fabian

Time and the Other by Johannes Fabian


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Summary

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.

Time and the Other Summary

Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object by Johannes Fabian

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).

Time and the Other Reviews

Praise for the first edition: A radical epistemological critique of anthropological writing. -- George Marcus, University of California, Irvine The confidence and optimism that Fabian expresses contributes in no small way to the exhilarating intellectual experience this book offers. -- Gauri Viswanathan, Columbia University x

About Johannes Fabian

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Syntheses of a Critical Anthropology, by Matti Bunzl Preface to the Reprint Edition Preface and Acknowledgments 1. Time and the Emerging Other 2. Our Time, Their Time, No Time: Coevalness Denied 3. Time and Writing About the Other 4. The Other and the Eye: Time and the Rhetoric of Vision 5. Conclusions Postscript: The Other Revisited Notes References Cited Index

Additional information

GOR012084557
9780231169271
0231169272
Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object by Johannes Fabian
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Columbia University Press
2014-04-15
272
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