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Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object
Johannes Fabian
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Description for Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object
Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 230 x 19. Weight in Grams: 480.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231169264
SKU
V9780231169264
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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 ... Read more
Reviews for Time and the Other: How Anthropology Makes Its Object
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
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